What's Going On at NCTR?
As we shared in last week’s E-Blast, NCTR spent an exciting week in California with our five California State University (CSU) partners as part of the New Generation of Educators Initiative annual convening. During the two-day professional learning series, which focused on improving the teacher candidate experience by aligning coursework and clinical preparation, NCTR’s Anissa Listak, Kathlene Holmes and Sarah Cohen presented alongside our CSU partners. The team shared highlights of our work to build effective partnerships between higher education institutions, districts and nonprofits to support the residency model and clinical preparation across California.
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Team NCTR in Seaside, Calif.
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Partner Updates
St. Louis Teacher Residency was highlighted again this week, this time by its partner, Washington University. The university’s executive director of the Institute for School Partnership said that collaborating with the residency is important because the program addresses the "urgent challenge" of preparing teachers for high-needs classrooms.
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Resources and Events
TWITTER Chat:
Strategies for Recruiting Teachers of Color
Hosted by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Educator Diversity Research Team
TODAY at 6 p.m. CST/7 p.m. EST.
Follow #TOCRecruitment and join the conversation.
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Share all of your events, alerts and media hits with Adithi Chandrashekar at achandrashekar@nctresidencies.org.
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Featured News
New Snapshot on State-Level Teacher Recruitment Policies
This month, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) released a new policy snapshot addressing teacher recruitment. The report explores state-by-state legislation on key areas of teacher recruitment and offers a summary of policy activities.
In “Targeted Teacher Recruitment,” ECS finds that teacher shortages vary significantly by state, district, school, and subject. The report notes that lawmakers in 23 states enacted 47 bills to help recruit teachers to high-need districts and for hard-to-staff subjects. ECS highlighted several ways in which states created policies designed to attract teachers:
- Convening work groups and collecting teacher supply and demand data;
- Giving state and local education agencies the flexibility to design their own targeted teacher recruitment strategies;
- Launching Career Pathways and Grow-Your-Own Programs for high school students;
- Amending teacher preparation and licensure requirements;
- Providing financial incentives such as scholarships/grants, loan forgiveness and hiring bonuses/salary increases to teachers, and;
- Providing incentives for retired teachers to return to the profession.
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