“Districts are expecting more and different from our teachers.”
Jack Elsey is the founder and CEO of the Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative, a nonprofit striving to transform Michigan’s educator pipeline.
“From literacy and math instruction, to working with colleagues, to how teachers analyze data to better inform their instruction.”
MEWI is launching its Education Preparation Providers Collaborative, partnering with Northern, Eastern, Western, Central and Michigan State Universities. Together, they’re updating teacher training programs responding to the needs of today’s students.
MEWI’s Partner and VP of Programs Becca Tisdale:
“Our hope is that, through this program, we collectively solve for some systemic issues that face our educators currently; things like streamlined credit transferring, teacher/mentor development, more practical training in classrooms for teacher candidates, and more.”
Elsey says studying data and metrics collected over the next two years will determine the program’s success.
“Are we producing more and better teachers? Are districts satisfied, more satisfied maybe, than they’ve ever been by the candidates that they’re getting specifically from the universities that are a part of this program?”
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