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New Impact Academy cohort represents 25 states, reaches 15,000 teacher-candidates annually

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Increasing access and affordability of pathways into teaching–especially for future teachers of color. Prioritizing evidence-based instructional quality and practice experiences. These institutions include public and private universities, a teachers’ union-led initiative, and residency programs.

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Ensuring the success of future teachers to enact foundational skills literacy instruction

Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact partnered with Instruction Partners to reflect on the importance of fostering a continuum of support for pre-service and in-service teachers to enact evidence-based early literacy instruction. This teacher’s instruction is an example of strong, research-based practice in early literacy.

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From tutor to teacher: how Illinois’s state tutoring program is building local pathways into teaching

Deans for Impact

In a brightly-lit corner of the library at Rochelle Middle School, aspiring math teacher Angie Saldana smiles encouragingly as she guides her tutee to compare different fractions using “greater than,” “less than,” and “equal to” signs. All my siblings [and I] have gone through this school,” says the NIU junior and teacher-candidate. “I

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Nurturing student learning and motivation through the application of cognitive science

Deans for Impact

Nicole McNeil remembers the moment well: she had just begun a tutoring relationship with a student in a local elementary school, when a teacher mistook McNeil for a social worker. The teacher informed me that this student was facing behavioral challenges in the classroom and assumed I had arrived to address those issues,” she recalls.

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Learning to use formative assessment in one New Jersey tutoring program

Deans for Impact

During a recent visit to the New Jersey Tutoring Corps (NJTC), I watched Kathy Ricci, an instructional coach, walk through a student’s diagnostic assessment data with Frank, a tutor interested in becoming a full-time teacher. Kathy finds this kind of instructional experience uncommon for many future teachers.

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For Dean Pervis Evans, student perspective is essential to strengthen and diversify teaching workforce

Deans for Impact

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all.

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Preparing to Lead with the Help of the Disney Leadership Institute 

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” – Walt Disney Many undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities worldwide provide opportunities for their students to travel abroad and learn global experiences that help them complete requirements within a designated course.