Minnesota reconvened its 91st legislative session on Tuesday, February 11. We lay out our policy priorities for the year—including competency-based education and reimagining teacher preparation—and highlight key education issues worth watching in 2020.
Strategies that state policymakers use to help retain teachers fall into three main buckets: improving initial teacher preparation; supporting teachers’ on-boarding and development; and expanding opportunities for teacher professionalism and leadership. We summarize them here.
With a teacher shortage affecting schools across the nation, the University of St. Thomas School of Education and Education Evolving teamed up to examine what can be done to increase teacher retention and what conditions enable teachers to thrive in their schools.
At Park Center Senior High, Pang Yang is teaching a heritage language course for native Hmong speakers. But the course is more than about language, culture, and history—it’s about the exploration of identity.
On Monday, the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) announced the first draft of revised rules for the standards educators learn in Minnesota teacher preparation programs. We summarize the most significant changes in the new draft teacher standards.
Policies and initiatives have neglected to address the constructs within schools that frustrate those who don’t identify as part of the dominant culture, leading many students to disengage and teachers to leave the profession. EE’s Alex Vitrella talked with some of those who have stayed—and learned what makes them stay.
