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2019 National ESEA Conference
Leaders Coming Together “Growing Your Own”
Teachers in High Poverty/High Minority Schools
January 31, 2019
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Georgia Department of Georgia
Dr Mack Bullard
Director of Strategic Talent Management
Griffin Spalding School District
Dr Karen Cliett
Title I, Part A, Area Specialist Georgia Department of Education
Dr Chandra Walker
Executive Director of Human Resources
and Talent Management Gwinnett County
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Georgia System of Continuous
Improvement Process
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• Introduction and Overview
• District Level Support & P-20
• Recruitment
• High School Students, Pre-service Candidates, & Teacher Interns
• Recruitment Work Session
• New Teachers
• Preparation, Onboarding, & Retention
• New Teachers Work Session
• Teacher Leaders
• Classroom & Administrators
• Teacher Leaders Work Session
Agenda
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Answer these four questions
1 What is your name?
2 Where are you from?
3 What is your job title?
4 How does your work relate to the session topic?
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Bolstering the Teacher
Pipeline
Our teacher recruitment system has been blinking red for a long time,
with the past decade catapulting the United States into crisis mode In
2016, the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute reported that teacher
education enrollment dropped from 691,000 to 451,000 , a 35 percent
reduction , between 2009 and 2014 The U S Department of Education
(2015) reports that a majority of states have identified teacher shortages
in mathematics (47 states and the District of Columbia); special
education (46 states and D.C.) ; science (43 states); world languages (40
states and D.C.) ; career and technical education (32 states); teachers of
English language learners (32 states); art, music, and dance (28 states);
and English (27 states) Gordon, Rath, & White (2018)
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Leading Us Out of the
Teacher Retention Crisis
Given that 20 to 30 percent of all new teachers nationwide leave the field
entirely within the first five years of their career, alternative certification
programs and schools need to prepare with two-year staff onboarding and
induction programs.
Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, & Carver-Thomas (2018)
•
However
Most school systems do not have a clearly defined value proposition that
convincingly lays out the reasons—beyond money and benefits—why
teaching in their district is attractive.
And
Traditionally, districts have seen preparing new teachers as someone else’s
Gordon, Rath, & White (2018)
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What Can Leaders Do
to Reverse This Trend?
States and school districts will need to be creative and devote
more time and resources to intentional recruitment and begin the
process with college first- and second-year students while they
are still considering college majors.
Consider creating teacher residency programs that provide
apprenticeships in high-need schools under the wing of expert
teachers Recruited teachers who complete their training would
be hired and paid for their training time with years of service
"Grow-your-own" programs also create a pathway for young
people to stay and serve in their community's schools.
Gordon, Rath, & White (2018)
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Georgia P-20 Collaboratives
learning for practicing
educators and leaders
• Nine regions, each clustered around a group of institutions or agencies that prepares teachers
• Each collaborative convenes twice during an academic year
• Topics of interest include recruitment and training for future teachers, induction for in-service teachers, support for educational leaders, and professional learning for all
• Each regional collaborative has a strategic planning team that plans
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Director of Strategic Talent Management
Griffin-Spalding School District Georgia
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• What supports
are currently being provided?
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Clarke Country School District
Growing Our Own:
Career Academies and
Recruiting Future Teachers
Lawrence M.T Harris, Clarke County School District, CEO of Athens Community Career Academy
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interest surveys
to 8th – 10th graders
were interested
in a career in education
▪ Bringing high school students alongside UGA Early Childhood Teacher
Education Students
beneficial partnerships
students build relationship with College of Education and vice versa
▪ Elective course to develop prerequisite knowledge in
education careers and dispositions for college readiness
▪ Coordination of the Education Academy
to include the Early Childhood
Education Pathway and the Teaching as
a Profession Pathway
▪ Increase to (24) students in Education Academy participation (2018- 19)
completion of Elective Course
internship and other hands-on
opportunities through Advisory Committee
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• Cowan Road Elementary
and Cowan Road Middle
• Mutual responsibility for
Tours, Grants to improve student achievement)
Preferred Partnership for GSCS Employees (Tuition discount,
application waiver, degrees and endorsement opportunities)
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• Cultivating educators by guiding high school
students on path to becoming teachers
• Support from Clayton State’s PDK and Teacher Ed
Club
• Planning shared service learning opportunities
• Campus tour for high school students
• Practicum placements for CSU students
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College & Career
Academy
• Teaching as a Profession Pathway
• Opportunities for students in
Griffin-Spalding, Butts, and Pike Counties
• 9 college credit hours (TUITION FREE) and
dual high school credit
• EDUC 2110 - Investigating Critical &
Contemporary Issues in Education
• EDUC 2120 - Exploring Socio-Cultural
Perspectives on Diversity in Educational
Contexts
www.grcca.education
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High School to
College Pipeline
• Cultivating and recruiting
African-American and Hispanic males to become
teachers within the state of Georgia
• Encouraged to return to teach and
mentor in Griffin-Spalding County
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“Grow Your Own”
Teachers
• Evening Track Program (B.S.Ed.)
• Opportunities for Paraprofessionals &
Classified staff to earn initial teaching
certificate
• Cohort model - Blended course delivery
• Keep job during clinical practice
• Courses taught off-campus (locally or within
region)
• Leverage financial assistance and support
(Griffin Memorial Scholarship,, Macon
Workforce development – books, edTPA,
childcare)
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Pilot with University Partners
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Interns as Teachers
• New innovative partnership to
develop and hire high performing
interns as quality teachers
• Partnership with designated
colleges/universities
• Gordon State University
• Mercer University
• Clayton State University
• Middle Georgia State
University
• University of West Georgia
• Georgia College and State
University
• Albany State University
• Fort Valley State University
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Interns as Teachers
The Benefits:
• Interns prepared to become teachers in year-long internship with
authentic classroom experience;
• Interns provided daily intensive coaching, mentoring and
co-development by high performing GSCS Master Teacher (paid
stipend);
• University clinical professor co-develops and collaboratively
supports intern with Master Teacher;
• Interns provided paid internship ($15K) to learn in year-long medical
residency style training experience;
• Interns hired as GSCS teachers and earns 1 year retirement credit
and earn 1 year credit on teacher salary upon offer of contract after
yearlong internship; and
• GSCS vacancies can be filled with high performing and highly
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District - Create
a pool of high potential “Fulton Ready” teacher candidates
Teacher Intern
-Match teacher interns with a high performing
CT’s
School/CT’s –
Provide CT’s training in areas
of mentoring and feedback & co- teaching models
University Partners –
Ensure alignment
of district and university expectations
Fulton County School System
First STEP 2.0 Objectives
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Key Milestones of
First STEP
• Match Day and Summer PD
• Preplanning and Opening of School
• Observations and GACE Content
Fall 2018
• $1,500 Stipend in January
• Full Time Teaching
• Observations and EdTPA
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“Growing Your Own”
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“Growing Your Own Teachers” Action Plan
Recruitment Work Session
• Look at the first column of the graphic organizer called Recruitment
(High School Students, Pre-service Candidates, Teacher Interns)
• Think about the information you just heard in the presentation
• Use the next two minutes to think about recruitment in your state,
district, or school, the actions you could take to address recruitment,
the timeline(s), funding sources, audiences, person(s)
responsible, monitoring, and evaluation of the action steps
• Jot down your thoughts, this is the beginning of an Action Plan for
Recruitment
• When time is called, identify the person who has the most years in
education at the table
• Move counter-clockwise with participants sharing the information in
column one on Recruitment and continue until time is called
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New Teachers
Preparation Onboarding Retention
Dr Karen Cliett
Title I, Part A Area Specialist
Georgia Department of Education
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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent
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The Reality
• Two hundred thousand teachers (200,000) leave the profession each
year
• One hundred thousand classrooms (100,000) will be staffed by an
instructor who is not fully qualified to teach in 2018-2019
• Ninety three percent (93%) of open teaching positions are created by
teachers who leave the profession
• Two thirds (2/3) of teachers leave for other reasons, most due to
dissatisfactions with teaching
• There are fifty percent (50%) higher turnover rates in Title I schools,
which serve more low-income students
AND
• Seventy percent (70%) higher for teachers in schools serving the largest
concentrations of students of color Shortages also persist in specific
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https://tinyurl.com/CalculateCost
What’s the Cost of
Teacher Turnover?
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Why do teachers leave?
Leaving
Lack of Preparation
Lack of Support
Difficult Working Conditions
Money
Better Career Opportunities
Personal Reasons
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