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Website Review Guide, Prepared To Teach

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This deck shares examples of strong teacher residency websites.

Communications Guide Version 1.0, Prepared To Teach

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This guide is focused on messaging about teacher residencies. It provides recommendations about branding, visual, narratives, and social media.

A Primer For Incorporating Pre-Service Co-Teaching Into Teacher Residencies, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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Pre-Service co-teaching – where teacher candidates engage as co-teachers during student teaching – is a strong instructional model, especially when combined with yearlong teacher residencies. This brief features a combination of resources, ideas, and activities that can help your preparation program/school district partnership create a shared understanding of pre-service co-teaching.

Towards A National Definition Of Teacher Residencies, Pathways Alliance, Prepared To Teach, National Center For Teacher Residenices

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The Pathways Alliance has developed this definition of teacher residencies to help clarify the field's use of the term. Our intention with this document is to support local partnership discussions about residency design and improvements and to provide state, regional, and federal leaders with a condensed yet thorough definition to guide policies that can support high-quality residencies to attract, prepare, and retain a robust and diverse teaching workforce.

The initial draft was co-constructed by the Teacher Residency Working Group, a collaborative group of Pathways Alliance members with expertise in residency development, support, and research. To inform and revise this definition, …

Registered Apprenticeship Programs And Teacher Residencies: Building Shared Understandings Between Workforce Development And Education, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This brief is the first in a series exploring principles that Prepared To Teach has surfaced as helpful for designing Registered Apprenticeship Programs for teacher residencies to promote and support high-quality teacher preparation systems. Sign up for our monthly newsletter for future releases.

Teacher Preparation Programs And Teacher Candidates Supporting Staffing Needs During Covid-19 - Program Highlights, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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A compilation of programs from across the Prepared To Teach National Learning Network that have creative staffing models that directly address staffing and substitute teaching shortages.

A Path To Equity: Solving New York's Teacher Turnover & Quality Challenges, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This white paper frames both the case for and an approach to addressing persistent teacher quality, diversity, and turnover challenges in the State of New York. A growing set of research and promising practice informs the report, which is intended to offer a high-level understanding of the complexities around how the economics of teacher preparation both drives educational inequities and can be shifted to promote educational quality and equity by investing in funded teacher residencies.

Federal Funding For Aspiring Teachers: An Investment In The Nation's Future, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This concept paper is a high-level overview of the case for and a pathway to achieve universal residencies across the nation created to inform policy discussions at the U.S. Department of Education.

A Path To Equity: Solving New Mexico's Teacher Turnover Challenges, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This memo discusses New Mexico's need for shifts in teacher preparation structures and options to meet Yazzie/Martinez requirements. New models of sustainable, affordable teacher residencies that can provide New Mexico the teaching workforce its students need are outlined.

Expert Report, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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Please do not cite without permission. Contact Karen DeMoss (kdemoss@bankstreet.edu) for information.

This report offers a comprehensive review of literature on teacher quality as it relates to preparation, culminating with an analysis of New York State certifications and a policy solution to improve teacher quality and retention in New York City schools

Esser Logic Model For Teacher Residencies, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document provides support for Local Education Agencies (LEAs) who might wish to use their Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief (ESSER) Funds to develop teacher residency programs. Residencies are explicitly allowable under federal guidance, as they can address both immediate COVID-19 learning opportunity gaps and help districts "build back better" by diversifying the teaching force, reducing turnover, and improving outcomes. The logic model above is part of the new resource that LEAs can use to complete their required ESSER plans.

Teacher Residency Website Guidance, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document provides guidance on how to design an effective teacher residency webpage that can support partnerships in garnering support, interest, awareness, and enrollment. Guidance is rooted in four key principles: Highlighting partnership values, telling stories, centering navigability, and focusing on keywords.

Using Esser Funds To Support Teacher Residencies, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document details the opportunity that Local Education Agencies (LEAs) have to leverage Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief Funds (ESSER) to develop teacher residency programs at their school sites. It is not only allowable, but also advisable under Federal guidance that these funds can support teacher candidates working for a full year, co-teaching within classrooms with accomplished mentor teachers, helping lead to a more diverse teacher workforce, reducing teacher turnover, and improving instructional outcomes.

Preparation Program And District Partnership Agreement Considerations, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document outlines key considerations to keep in mind when building a residency partnership. Articulating agreements can help clarify the responsibilities of each party—programs and schools or districts—as well as foster a shared understandings of the mutual goals and responsibilities the partnership wishes to embrace. Agreements can remain informal or can form the basis for a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

Going Further Together: Building Ownership And Engagement To Support High-Quality Teacher Preparation, Maria Salciccioli, Melissa White, Karen Demoss, Hannah Dennis

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Building shared ownership and engagement over teacher preparation can help ensure that efforts to sustainably fund high-quality programs will endure beyond initial start-up funding. By drawing on effective, lasting collaboration among stakeholders who have not traditionally worked together—both within organizations and across organizational lines, programs can successfully identify sustainable funding sources for the long term. This report shares strategies for building ownership and engagement and highlights programs across the country that have successfully sustained and grown the kind of commitments that ensure program development and longevity.

Sample Formal Resident Agreement, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This sample Resident Commitment Agreement is a skeleton for partnerships to use and edit in ways that best fit their needs. This formal contract model not only embeds expectations for the residency but also sets out terms for residents' receipt of financial supports during the residency, such as agreements to take positions in a district once they have completed the program.

Sample State Application Language For Residencies In Arpa, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document contains sample language for state plans. Please feel free to adapt this document for use in your efforts to encourage your state education agency to include residency funding in its application for the last third of ARP dollars, which is due June 7^th. For more information, contact PreparedToTeach@bankstreet.edu

District Arp Erra Funds, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document contains ideas for districts to leverage ARPA funds.

Guidance: Resident Expectations And Agreements, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document outlines expectations that residency programs might want to make explicit for those who will be enrolling in the residency. Many of these considerations also would be included in formal agreements between individual residents and preparation partnerships, for example when residents must agree to serve as teachers in a district in exchange for receiving funding during the program.

Arp Webinar Slide Deck, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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Slide deck for Prepared To Teach webinar on May 17th, 2021.

Sample Residency Partnership Memorandum Of Understanding (Mou), Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This residency partnership sample MOU can be edited and adapted in ways that best fit local partnerships' needs and goals. The MOU includes collaborative goals and shared responsibilities, followed by specific program and district responsibilities.

Supporting Candidates' Financial Needs, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This document takes the affordability lessons found in our report, The Affordability Imperative: Creating Equitable Access to Quality Teacher Preparation, and offers preparation program leaders a set of guiding questions to help them find more ways to reduce the financial burdens of their aspiring teachers.

Exploring District Investments In Residencies, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This one-page document illustrates ways school districts can adjust existing funding streams to support teacher candidates during their residency year. Examples of include substitute teaching days for residents, professional development opportunities, and co-teaching alongside mentor teachers.

Beyond Tuition, Costs Of Teacher Preparation: Descriptive Analytics From The Aspiring Teachers' Financial Burden Survey, Francheska Santos, Divya Mansukhani, Susann Skjoldhorne, Neal Finkelstein

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This report shares analyses from the national survey of aspiring teachers carried out by Prepared To Teach during the 2019-2020 school year. Beyond Tuition, Costs of Teacher Preparation dives into the income sources, expenses, debt, and work realities of aspiring teachers across the country and identifies where candidates are in need of additional support.

Forming And Sustaining An Advisory Group, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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This slide deck outlines the basics of forming an effective advisory group to develop a strong residency partnership. By developing trust and collaborating on shared, mutually beneficial work, advisory groups can support both short-term and long-term partnership goals. The presentation includes supplementary notes on many slides.

Roles For Candidates In The Classroom, Charlotte Wells

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This animated PowerPoint presentation shows different models for integrating aspiring teachers into the classroom to help with instruction while furthering their own learning. With more than a dozen examples, it's a helpful starting point for partnerships seeking to shift towards a more cohesive P-20 education system.

The presentation includes voiceovers and timed animations. You can choose to present without these if you'd prefer. Settings are in the slideshow tab of PowerPoint.

Download here.

Program Cost Tool, Amie Kaufenberg, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

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For a comprehensive look at a preparation program budget, this Excel-based tool will estimate five years of costs and potential savings to assist in your immediate and long-term planning. Administrators or program leaders might find this especially helpful for considering shifts in teacher preparation programming. See the introduction document for guidance on how to use.

Simple Shifts: Paying Aspiring Teachers With Existing Resources, Hannah Dennis, Karen Demoss

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Reallocation helps partnerships redesign work roles to better support preparation efforts and to allow candidates to earn compensation during their clinical practice. Simple Shifts shares ways in which residents can bring value to the classroom and how districts and programs have leveraged the skills of aspiring teachers.

The Affordability Imperative: Creating Equitable Access To Quality Teacher Preparation, Hannah Dennis, Karen Demoss, Divya Mansukhani

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This report is one of three case studies on the "3Rs of sustainably funded teacher preparation" (reallocation, reduction, and reinvestment) developed by Prepared To Teach. This case focuses on reduction—the strategies and stories inside are intended to help universities maximize access to financial aid sources and minimize costs associated with quality programs.

The Residency Revolution: Funding High-Quality Teacher Preparation, Hannah Dennis, Karen Demoss

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(Re)Investment helps districts find ways to make shifts that can permanently embed residency funding into local budgets. The Residency Revolution is about identifying and maximizing the savings that a high-quality residency program can bring to a district.