In response to the pandemic, we have advocated for teacher-candidates to serve as tutors in high-need and hard-to-staff schools.
It’s a win-win:…
Alignment is the cornerstone of teacher preparation, my colleagues Benjamin Riley and Valerie Sakimura wrote in Educational Leadership last year. Last…
Most teaching is local: most teachers choose to teach near where they grew up. Given that, what are the implications for teacher preparation?
There were days when my favorite high school math teacher, Mr. B, rarely taught math. One of those days was April 21, 1999, hours after Dylan Klebold…
“Teaching is an oppressed profession.”
It was late last year. A group of teacher-candidates were seated in a circle at one of the institutions…
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For the first time since we launched Deans for…
It is a strange fact of teacher education in the U.S. that pre-service “field experiences” too often require aspiring teachers to sit in the back…
If our national discourse about education were informed by The Science of Learning, we would be having a much different conversation about…
“We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure.” So proclaim Tony Bryk and his colleagues at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of…
