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Michigan Adds Certificate for Birth to Kindergarten Teachers
A detail of how the Michigan State Board of Education, working closely with the state education agency, is expanding opportunities to improve early educators’ preparation.Preparing Diverse, Effective Teachers through Residencies and Induction
Many states are expanding teacher residency and induction programs.Leveraging Relicensure Policies to Advance Deeper Learning
This NASBE policy update urges state boards of education to invigorate relicensure policies by embracing multiple tiers that support teachers throughout their careers and implementing requirements such as work portfolios, individual learning plans, and microcredentials.Aligning Teacher Preparation with Student Learning Standards
This Policy Update highlights the mismatch between the skills taught in many teacher preparation programs and those needed to help students achieve rigorous learning standards. State boards of education have a role to play here.Partner Resource
How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research
Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, this groundbreaking synthesis of research on school principals finds that effective principals have positive impacts on student achievement and attendance, as well as teacher satisfaction and retention.Equipping Teachers
Teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention tops the priorities among state board members for better information to guide policymaking.
read morePreparing Pre-K Teachers: Policy Considerations and Strategies
Four practices to increase the pool of skilled early educators stand out as promising.
read moreEnsuring Equity in Grow-Your-Own Programs
State-level criteria for programs' design can yield better outcomes in preparing and retaining diverse teachers.
read moreTeacher Preparation for Whole-Child Design
State leaders have a role in ensuring that educator preparation both models and reflects the science of learning and development.
read moreLicensure Tests as Barriers to the Profession
States should explore better means of assessing teachers' classroom readiness.
read moreA Data-Driven Approach to Staffing Schools
Lowering teacher standards may fail to solve actual pipeline problems and can create new ones.
read moreThe Uneven Landscape of Teacher Preparation
State statutes impede students' equitable access to profession-ready teachers.
read moreNASBE Analysis Urges Preparation for Principals in Crisis Management
Analysis finds state and district leaders all have a role to play in building principals’ capacity to face crises with resilience and lead in ways that best serve students and support and retain teachers.
read morePreparing School Leaders for Crises
Leadership preparation programs and state and district leaders all have a role to play in building principals’ capacity to face crises with resilience and lead in ways that best serve students and support and retain teachers.
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