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2020

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How California's Teacher Residencies Are Helping To Solve Teacher Shortages And Strengthen Schools, Karen Demoss, Cathy Yun Nov 2020

How California's Teacher Residencies Are Helping To Solve Teacher Shortages And Strengthen Schools, Karen Demoss, Cathy Yun

Prepared to Teach

With significant state investment teacher residencies are spreading throughout California. These vignettes highlight two California teacher residencies and how they are helping to address shortages and support both students and teachers. These examples also spotlight creative funding strategies that can help California’s investments in teacher residencies become sustainable over time.


Sustainable Strategies For Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California, Karen Demoss, Cathy Yun Nov 2020

Sustainable Strategies For Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California, Karen Demoss, Cathy Yun

Prepared to Teach

With significant state investment, teacher residencies are spreading throughout California To sustain these efforts after the initial state investment programs are using creative funding strategies. To learn about how teacher residencies across the state are funding their work, the Learning Policy Institute and Prepared To Teach at Bank Street College of Education partnered to examine the current state of practice around residency sustainability. The report highlights California teacher residencies with known financial sustainability efforts in which partners are leveraging local resources to support residents and mentor teachers. These concrete examples of creative residency funding strategies are meant to help California’s …


Covid-19 And Online Early Childhood Education, Mark Nagasawa Oct 2020

Covid-19 And Online Early Childhood Education, Mark Nagasawa

Straus Center for Young Children & Families

This infographic summarizes some themes from a survey conducted with early childhood educators across New York in May 2020, when 65% of programs reported providing online ECE. While respondents expressed clear needs for support in providing technologically-mediated ECE - including tech support, curricular, materials, and hardware - they also displayed three key components of any ECE, commitments to relationships, flexibility, and creativity. This highlights a critical need to document educators' many creative approaches and lessons learned from the pandemic.


Becoming A System Of Professional Learning: Conceptualizing Improvement As A Throughline Of Learning, Michelle L. Forman, Tracy Fray-Oliver, Doug Knecht Mar 2020

Becoming A System Of Professional Learning: Conceptualizing Improvement As A Throughline Of Learning, Michelle L. Forman, Tracy Fray-Oliver, Doug Knecht

Bank Street Education Center

This white paper introduces the “Throughline of Learning” (Throughline) model developed by the Bank Street Education Center. The model builds on the concept of the instructional core and demonstrates how focusing on system-wide adult learning needs can help districts successfully reimagine their approach to instructional improvement.