2017 Teachers of the Year || NCTR E-Blast 05.03.17

What's Going On At NCTR?

NCTR's Tamara Azar visited Boettcher Teacher Residency's partner school C3 (Creativity Challenge Community) in Denver, Colorado, this week with a group of policymakers from other states. The team spoke with residents, mentors, graduates and school leaders about the teacher residency model as part of a human capital approach to hiring. Following this, a policy discussion with Boettcher Teacher Residency's Sue Sava and Denver Teacher Residency's Julie Rottier Lukens highlighted both the power of the residency model and the reasons the model is thriving in Colorado.

Preparing for Symposium
As part of next week's Annual Symposium, an event exclusively designed for our Network Partners, NCTR and residency partners will focus on developing and launching data-based program development goals. Currently, the Network team is working with programs to examine their own data, the findings of which will be applied to program updates in the year to come.

Featured News

2017 Teachers of the Year

Recently, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announced that its National Teacher of the Year (NTOY) distinction was awarded to Massachusetts' Sydney Chaffee, a humanities teacher at Codman Academy, a public charter school in Boston. In addition to her full-time teaching responsibilities, Ms. Chaffee is a part-time instructor at Boston University's School of Education and is a TeachPlus Commonwealth Teaching Policy Fellow. CBS This Morning and The Boston Globe highlighted the award and Ms. Chaffee, who was quoted as saying, "I want my students to understand that they are powerful and that they can make change in the world."

CCSSO's NTOY announcement motivated us to reshare exciting news from our Network Partner, the Center for Inspired Teaching. In March 2017, two "Inspired Teachers" were honored at the Standing Ovation for DC Public Schools event, hosted by the DC Public Education Fund at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Jan Schuettpelz was DC Public Schools' Teacher of the Year and has been an Inspired Teacher Leader since 2015. Milton Bryant is a 2011 graduate of the Inspired Teacher Certification Program and received the Rubenstein Award for Highly Effective Teaching. Congrats to the Center for Inspired Teaching for their rigorous preparation of high quality teachers.

In the News

From Insight to Action: NTEP Sets The Stage for Improved Teacher Prep
Real Clear Education
CCSSO's Network for Transforming Educator Preparation is working to improve teacher training through policy efforts that focus on the approval of educator prep programs, the collection and use of teacher prep data by states and updates to licensure systems.

Educators Share Their #BestPD, #WorstPD
Education Week
Education Week shares teachers best and worst professional development experiences in this humorous video.

5 Education Priorities In The Federal Spending Deal That Averted Government Shutdown
The 74
Under the Trump Administration's newly issued budget, the Department of Education will receive $68 billion. School improvement grants and supporting effective instruction line items will lose about $744 million.

P rincipal Offers 'Future Ready' Tips for Preparing Students
EducationDive
An elementary principal and author of "The Future Ready Challenge" offers advice on preparing students for work in careers that may not yet exist.

Please note that the articles and events in the NCTR E-Blast do not reflect the opinions of our organization, but rather represent information that we believe will be relevant to you and your programs.

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