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A Path To Equity: Solving New Mexico's Teacher Turnover Challenges, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College Dec 2021

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

Prepared to Teach

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.


Teacher Residency Website Guidance, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College Jul 2021

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

Prepared to Teach

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 Jun 2021

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

Prepared to Teach

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.


Going Further Together: Building Ownership And Engagement To Support High-Quality Teacher Preparation, Maria Salciccioli, Melissa White, Karen Demoss, Hannah Dennis May 2021

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

Prepared to Teach

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.


Beyond Tuition, Costs Of Teacher Preparation: Descriptive Analytics From The Aspiring Teachers' Financial Burden Survey, Francheska Santos, Divya Mansukhani, Susann Skjoldhorne, Neal Finkelstein May 2021

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

Prepared to Teach

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.