Your Teaching Career Starts Now
Odds are there is an open classroom near you that needs a teacher according to a study by the Learning Policy Institute – it the best time ever to start …
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Arizona Open Teaching Positions “Crisis”
We recently submitted our first phase of an application in Arizona to become a provider and it looks like it might be just in the nick of time. A recent …
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No Math Teachers in Detroit
It got so bad in Detroit last year that an eighth grader taught a math class for a month because there were no math teachers to cover the class. A …
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Florida Teacher Wanted
The Florida teaching shortage continues to get worse. Same issues as other states but with a heavier increase in student population, the schools cannot keep up. The recent Learning Policy …
Read MoreUnderstanding Teacher Shortages
Three new papers out from the Learning Policy Institute on teacher shortages. Nothing really new – but some solid hard data on what is happening. During the 2015-16 school year, …
Read MoreClark County Teacher Shortage
The Clark County teacher shortage is pretty desperate. Last year they started the year still short 700 teachers – and didn’t have them by the end of the year. That …
Read MoreSchools Still Hiring Teachers
It’s the start of the school year for students everywhere but schools still have vacant positions and are still hiring teachers. Let’s take a quick trip around the country where …
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Student Achievement!
Everyone asks about student achievement when it comes to our teacher preparation program and we now have an answer. Apparently we had an answer for a while but didn’t know …
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Teacher Preparation – stop chasing fads!
When it comes to teacher preparation, we have seen people get so radically focused on inputs that they ignore what is really going on with people moving into the classroom. …
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Diversity in the Teaching Workforce
New study out on the lack of diversity in the teaching workforce where “while minority children account for half of the nation’s student body in public schools, minority teachers make up …
Read MoreTrends in Teacher Shortage
Great report from Pearson on the reason for the teacher shortage. The report brings together data from Dr. Ingersol: “As a result, the number of teacher retirements has similarly changed, …
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Student Population on the Rise in Texas
Schools just started in Texas and to be honest we are still scrambling to complete the paperwork at Texas Teachers of Tomorrow to get well over 7,000 teachers placed this …
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