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Mentors! 6 Tips for Connecting with New Teachers
Sarah Glover, MA Associate Executive Director of Education, Residency Build the Relationship Effective mentor teachers work to build relationships with their students, and with the new teachers they are mentoring as well. Meaningful relationships are built intentionally, and through shared experience. Here are six tips for building relationships with the […]
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PEBC’s response to proposed ESSA Regulations
The United States Department of Education (USDOE) recently proposed regulations on accountability, consolidated state plans, and data reporting under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The proposed regulations were published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, May 31. These proposed rules are subject to a 60-day public comment period, with […]
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Effective Vocabulary Instruction in a Few Minutes Per Day
Wendy Ward Hoffer Particularly helpful to learners are instructional strategies that take students beyond word-definition memorization to engage them more fully with the concepts behind the terms (Harmon, Hedrick, and Wood 2005). Yet, since there will never be time enough in any subject in school to directly teach students all […]
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Why Teach Vocabulary in Math?
Wendy Ward Hoffer 1,025,109.8 According to the Global Language Monitor, this is how many words are in the English language as of January 1, 2014. (Now I am not sure how a language can include four-fifths of a word, but let’s leave that aside for now.) Consider the vastness of […]
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Why Teach Reading in Math?
Wendy Ward Hoffer Math and Reading Need Each Other Historically, designers of secondary schools, authors of standards, test writers, and teachers have somehow created and perpetuated a misconception: that reading and math are entirely separate “subjects” having little to do with one another, that one ought not to have to […]
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Identify and Recruit More Teacher Candidates in Colorado
For those who have been following recent education news, it should come as no surprise that the topic of conversation on Tuesday afternoon at the Capitol was around teacher recruitment. It has become a national crisis and one that Colorado has been acutely impacted by. At a press conference in […]
Read MoreBoettcher program trains teachers to be successful
New teachers are leaving the profession at alarming rates, and colleges are graduating fewer licensed teachers, leaving many schools hurting for qualified instructors. Southwest Colorado is one of four areas in the state particularly hard-hit by the shortage. Nationwide, about one-third of new teachers leave the classroom in the first […]
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What should school leaders know about ESSA?
David Bahna, Director of Assessment & Accountability, Adams 12 Five Star Schools With bright, sunny skies and an impending storm of one million Broncos fans descending on the city, local district and agency leaders joined PEBC last Tuesday to unpack the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the new education […]
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My bottom lines
Stevi Quate, Author and PEBC Consultant I was challenged to write my professional creed/belief statement, so this is what I wrote: Teachers and students deserve respect. “To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary […]
Read MoreRecruiting more teachers of color
Colorado State of Mind Re-segregation in southwest Denver schools Elevating the teaching profession, and recruiting more teachers of color, are critical for student success and reimagining the future of education in Colorado. PEBC’s Boettcher Teacher Residency, which recently combined with Stanley Teacher Prep, discusses the importance of these goals and […]
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PEBC Announces Formation of Colorado’s Largest Residency-based Teacher-Preparation Program
DENVER –Sep. 23, 2015–Two of the nation’s most highly regarded teacher-preparation programs have agreed to combine, creating a statewide pipeline of highly effective teachers as well as a new state and national model for teacher preparation. PEBC, a nonprofit that cultivates highly effective K-12 educators to increase student growth and […]
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Colorado teacher residency programs merging to prepare more teachers
Two of Colorado’s longtime teacher residency programs are joining forces to expand their reach and prepare at least 50 more teachers each year to help fill a declining workforce. The Boettcher Teacher Residency, which has been around for 12 years, and the 24-year-old Stanley Teacher Prep program are making the […]
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