Sample State Application Language for Residencies in ARPA

This document contains sample language for state plans. Please feel free to adapt this document for use in your efforts to encourage your state education agency to include residency funding in its application for the last third of ARP dollars, which is due June 7th. For more information, contact [email protected]://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1025/thumbnail.jp

Teacher Residency Website Guidance

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.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1030/thumbnail.jp

Guidance: Resident Expectations and Agreements

This document outlines expectations that residency programs might want to make explicit for those who will be enrolling in the residency. Many of these considerations also would be included in formal agreements between individual residents and preparation partnerships, for example when residents must agree to serve as teachers in a district in exchange for receiving funding during the program.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1021/thumbnail.jp

Integrating Residencies into Substitute Teaching

This one-page document illustrates the possibilities and benefits of having residents take on substitute teaching roles in a district. Dollars previously allocated to substitute teaching can be redirected toward candidate stipends while substitute teaching needs are largely met by the cohort of residents.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/faculty-staff/1028/thumbnail.jp

Expert Report

Please do not cite without permission. Contact Karen DeMoss ([email protected]) for information. This report offers a comprehensive review of literature on teacher quality as it relates to preparation, culminating with an analysis of New York State certifications and a policy solution to improve teacher quality and retention in New York City schoolshttps://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1032/thumbnail.jp

Preparation Program and District Partnership Agreement Considerations

This document outlines key considerations to keep in mind when building a residency partnership. Articulating agreements can help clarify the responsibilities of each party—programs and schools or districts—as well as foster a shared understandings of the mutual goals and responsibilities the partnership wishes to embrace. Agreements can remain informal or can form the basis for a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1016/thumbnail.jp

Federal Funding for Aspiring Teachers: An Investment in the Nation\u27s Future

This concept paper is a high-level overview of the case for and a pathway to achieve universal residencies across the nation created to inform policy discussions at the U.S. Department of Education.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1035/thumbnail.jp

ARP Webinar Slide Deck

Slide deck for Prepared To Teach webinar on May 17th, 2021.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1027/thumbnail.jp

A Primer for Incorporating Pre-Service Co-Teaching Into Teacher Residencies

Pre-Service co-teaching – where teacher candidates engage as co-teachers during student teaching – is a strong instructional model, especially when combined with yearlong teacher residencies. This brief features a combination of resources, ideas, and activities that can help your preparation program/school district partnership create a shared understanding of pre-service co-teaching.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1039/thumbnail.jp

Registered Apprenticeship Programs and Teacher Residencies: Building Shared Understandings Between Workforce Development and Education

This brief is the first in a series exploring principles that Prepared To Teach has surfaced as helpful for designing Registered Apprenticeship Programs for teacher residencies to promote and support high-quality teacher preparation systems. Sign up for our monthly newsletter for future releases.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1037/thumbnail.jp