As we reach the halfway point of summer, leaders are gradually returning to their schools and offices where they will quickly have to find a solution to one of their most pressing issues ahead of the new school year: filling...
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Education First is proud to support a group of leading teacher preparation transformation centers (the Centers), technical assistance providers that support teacher preparation programs. The Centers, with the support of Education First, developed the DEI Companion Document to the Teacher...
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Education First is proud to support a group of leading teacher preparation transformation centers (the Centers), technical assistance providers that support teacher preparation programs. The Centers, with the support of Education First, developed the DEI Companion Document to the Teacher...
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Teacher preparation programs and those that support them must prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism in their efforts to prepare a more robust and diverse teacher pipeline. That is why a group of leading Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers—technical assistance providers...
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This past year’s dual challenges of ongoing systemic racism and COVID-19 exposed the deep inequities that exist within our schools and communities, including disparities in access to high-quality teachers prepared to teach both virtually and in-person. High-quality teacher preparation can...
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High-quality teacher preparation can play a critical role in dismantling inequities in education, such as disparities in student achievement and access to high-quality education, which often exist and persist along racial and ethnic lines.
Guest blog by Brian Sevier A couple years ago, when I became Dean of the School of Education (SoE) at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), I kicked off my first all faculty/staff meeting with this question: If I were...
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Guest blog by Adina Lopatin Remember being a student teacher? On any given day, my mind was filled to the brim. My mini-lesson, my handouts, timing transitions just right, remembering modifications for particular students… and where is my clipboard?! The...
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Guest blog by Susan Baker Here in the College of Education at California State University Sacramento, we’ve been in the business of preparing teachers for 73 years, and in the past few years have prepared approximately 380 teachers annually across...
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Guest blog by Calvin J. Stocker A number of educational leaders are visionaries, others pacesetters and some servant-oriented in their approach. Shea Culpepper—Clinical Full Professor & Director of Teacher Education at the University of Houston—is all three, and has set...
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