For the Public Good: Quality Preparation for Every Teacher

The Sustainable Funding Project at Bank Street College of Education was established to address a significant problem in public education: how to ensure that all aspiring teaches are prepared through affordable, high-quality programs so that every teacher enters the profession ready for the demands of 21st century classrooms. This report tackles quality sustained clinical practice as one part of the affordability question.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/faculty-staff/1001/thumbnail.jp

Clearing the Path: Redesigning Teacher Preparation for the Public Good

Clearing the Path: Redesigning Teacher Preparation for the Public Good, offers lessons from innovative partnerships, sharing sustainable funding models that can provide stipends to teacher candidates in full-time residency placements.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/faculty-staff/1010/thumbnail.jp

Dollars and Sense: Federal Investments in Our Educator Workforce

Supporting aspiring educators during preparation is essential. The field is ready to embrace shifts that will make teacher preparation more uniformly strong, sustainable, and equitably accessible—investments in preparation will make such shifts possible. This report makes the case for a renewed commitment to excellent teacher preparation, made possible by federal investments.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1017/thumbnail.jp

Following the Money: Exploring Residency Funding through the Lens of Economics

Following the Money digs into how the system for funding teacher preparation fuels a host of shortcomings: subpar routes to teaching, inadequate practice before entering the classroom, shortages in high need areas, underprepared teachers. Following the Money finds that financial barriers limit our ability to grow to a universally high-quality teacher preparation system, calling for a stronger knowledge base about the economics of teacher preparation to understand how we can realize the quality we need.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/faculty-staff/1016/thumbnail.jp

How Arts Integration Supports Student Learning: Students Shed Light on the Connections (Full report)

Learning in and with the arts has been linked with increased student achievement, but the means by which the arts may support cognitive growth in students is relatively undocumented. Thirty students across ten classes in veteran teacher-artist partnerships were selected to help explore the processes and outcomes associated with arts-integrated learning units versus learning processes and outcomes in comparable non-arts units

How California\u27s Teacher Residencies Are Helping to Solve Teacher Shortages and Strengthen Schools

With significant state investment teacher residencies are spreading throughout California. These vignettes highlight two California teacher residencies and how they are helping to address shortages and support both students and teachers. These examples also spotlight creative funding strategies that can help California’s investments in teacher residencies become sustainable over time.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1005/thumbnail.jp

The Residency Revolution: Funding High-Quality Teacher Preparation

(Re)Investment helps districts find ways to make shifts that can permanently embed residency funding into local budgets. The Residency Revolution is about identifying and maximizing the savings that a high-quality residency program can bring to a district.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1012/thumbnail.jp

Simple Shifts: Paying Aspiring Teachers with Existing Resources

Reallocation helps partnerships redesign work roles to better support preparation efforts and to allow candidates to earn compensation during their clinical practice. Simple Shifts shares ways in which residents can bring value to the classroom and how districts and programs have leveraged the skills of aspiring teachers.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1011/thumbnail.jp

Sustainable Strategies for Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California

With significant state investment, teacher residencies are spreading throughout California To sustain these efforts after the initial state investment programs are using creative funding strategies. To learn about how teacher residencies across the state are funding their work, the Learning Policy Institute and Prepared To Teach at Bank Street College of Education partnered to examine the current state of practice around residency sustainability. The report highlights California teacher residencies with known financial sustainability efforts in which partners are leveraging local resources to support residents and mentor teachers. These concrete examples of creative residency funding strategies are meant to help California’s new investments in teacher residencies become sustainable over time. They also offer valuable lessons for residencies in any community context.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1004/thumbnail.jp

The Affordability Imperative: Creating Equitable Access to Quality Teacher Preparation

This report is one of three case studies on the 3Rs of sustainably funded teacher preparation (reallocation, reduction, and reinvestment) developed by Prepared To Teach. This case focuses on reduction—the strategies and stories inside are intended to help universities maximize access to financial aid sources and minimize costs associated with quality programs.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1010/thumbnail.jp