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DOE Recognizes Relay in Federal Plan
Echoing the White House earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education today cited Relay Graduate School of Education among several organizations “demonstrating vital leadership in improving teacher preparation.” The Department recognized Relay as it proposed new rules that would ensure teacher training programs are preparing educators to succeed in the classroom.
The Together Teacher Comes to Coursera
The day-to-day work of being a teacher can be overwhelming. Even experienced teachers sometimes struggle to keep it all together as they juggle time-sensitive tasks and exhausting teaching schedules.
Join Our Team in New Orleans
Since Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Crescent City has emerged as one of the most innovative public school environments in the United States. Now, we're looking for a new Director of Operations who will lead regional strategy, partnerships and day-to-day regional operations at our New Orleans campus.
'They're Believing the Dream'
Principal Celeste Douglas knows what it takes to make a school great. Time after time, she shared that knowledge with her teachers at M.S. 57 in Brooklyn.
But for a while, she felt as if her guidance didn't connect with her team. While she was painting a grand vision for her teachers, she wasn't helping them see how each brush stroke contributed to the bigger picture.
"I never was specific about what that looked like," Douglas told us recently.
Relay Dean: Images of Great Teaching
Mayme Hostetter, Dean of the Relay Graduate School of Education in New York City, both told and showed the audience what great teaching looks like in the last of three Minnesota Meetings on closing the achievement gap.
Read more from The Minneapolis Foundation.
'A Relay of Great Teachers for All Students'
Dean Mayme Hostetter explains how Relay is pioneering a new approach to what novice teachers learn — and how they learn it.
"Those folks who graduate from Relay will become the relay of great teachers ... for this next generation," Hostetter said.
Listen to the full podcast, below.
Relay: 'The Future of Teacher Training'
"If you want to see the future of teacher training," Jonathan Schorr writes, "you could do worse than to visit Samantha Patterson's kindergarten classroom at North Star Academy Charter School of Newark."
Schorr describes three groups of students in Patterson's classroom. One works independently on computers. A second listens quietly while another teacher reads a story. And a third is practices vowel sounds during a "fast-moving, full-body experience" with "quick, joyful volleys" between the students and their teacher.
Practice: Not Just for Jocks and Musicians
Doug Lemov, Managing Director at Uncommon Schools, author of Teach Like a Champion and co-author of the new book Practice Perfect, writes that Relay Graduate School of Education, "in contrast to more theory-heavy programs, preps teachers for what they will do all day on the job."
A New Type of Ed School
June Kronholz was observing a class at the new Relay Graduate School of Education when a student asked if it was OK to rework questions from a teachers' guide to fit the English lesson she was teaching that week.
Sure, said Mayme Hostetter, Relay's dean.
"No need to totally invent the wheel," Hostetter said. "Just make the wheel amazing."
Read more in Kronholz's full article in EducationNext.
Overhauling Education Schools
"Most people agree that traditional education schools have failed, especially in preparing teachers equipped for the realities of high-poverty schools," Gov. Gaston Caperton and Richard Whitmire write for The College Board. "Relay is all about getting results in those places."
Read Caperton and Whitmire's article (PDF) in Achieving the Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools.
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