Transcript Kansas Teaching Fellows Enter a noble and fulfilling

Kansas Teaching Fellows
Making a Way
What is the Kansas Teaching
Fellows Program?
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Alternative certification
program
Recruits outstanding
professionals
Prepares new teachers for
high-needs public schools
Introducing . . .
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Laurie Boyd – KCK principal; Director of
Summer Institute for Fellows
Lindsey Cegelis – PSU Coordinator
Rozanne Sparks – PSU School of
Education
Howard Smith – PSU Chair of Curriculum
and Instruction
The Beginning - 2001:
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The New Teacher Project
Pittsburg State University
Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools
Northwest Middle School in KCK
Through 2000 – as much as
one-third of the teaching
positions were filled by longterm substitutes. . . for years!
2001 – a deposit of seven
Cohort 1 teaching fellows
2003 – addition of four Cohort 3
teaching fellows
No longer a hard-to-staff
building.
Course of Study for
Master’s in Teaching
36 credit hours
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Summer 1 – Summer Institute
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First three courses of program (teacher boot camp)
Fall 1 – 2 classes
Spring 1 – 2 classes
Summer 2 – 2 classes
Fall 2 – 2 classes
Spring 2 – 2 classes - Graduation
Program Components
from 2001 - 2008
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Accepted only those for whom we had openings
Fellows quit their day jobs to attend seven weeks of
Summer Institute, teaching in district summer school
classrooms in the a.m. and attending course sessions in
the afternoons
Fellows were provided with a $1,500 stipend during SI
Fellows started teaching in full-time positions the first
Fall semester (just a couple weeks after completing SI)
Fellows who committed four years to KCKPS were
reimbursed their tuition, amounting to a paid Master’s
degree
Schools cut 3,700 positions
Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Jul 15, 2009
by Taylor Atkins
 Kansas school districts have eliminated more
than 3,700 teaching and non-teaching positions
to save nearly $100 million, according to a
school finances overview released earlier this
month by the Kansas Association of School
Boards.
Schools prepare for
budget cuts
Governor proposes $17.7 million
reduction this year
 Barbara Hollingsworth
Published Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Kansas schools are bracing as budget news
grows grimmer.
Summer 2009:
Cohort IX Fellows Soldier On!
Results
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Prepared 9 groups of first-year teachers
Placed in schools all members of the first 8
cohorts
150+ Fellows still teach in KCK, impacting
12,000 children daily
Principals now clamor to interview Fellows for
vacancies
The influx of Fellows coincides with KCK’s
impressive academic progress over the past 9
years.
Influx of Fellows coincides with
district success
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Graduation Rate 2000-2007
100%
79%
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20%
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2007
Influx of Fellows coincides with
district success
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Math and Reading Increases 1996-2008
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7 5 .5
5 3 .8
3 1 .2
2 1 .5
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5 3 .8
5 7 .8
5 6 .8
1 1 .3
1996 2001 2007 2008 2010
Math
Reading
Dr. Jill Shackleford
KCK Superintendent
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“The Fellows are a blessing to
the school district. That program
must have come out of heaven
at a time when we were looking
at 90 vacancies.”
Kansas City Star Newspaper
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
Emily Novak (4th cohort) and Sara
Esther (4th cohort) receive grant awards
they earned for their school.
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
Robbie Howard
(7th cohort) is
awarded the Horizon
Award for outstanding
first-year teacher.
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
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Jan Isabel (3rd
cohort) secured
and facilitated a
grant to renovate
the track at
Northwest Middle
School while
attracting girls to
engineering fields.
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
Cecil Cristwell (3rd
cohort) and Jarius Jones
(1st cohort) founded the
annual district Math Relays
competition.
Math Relays medal-winners
from Arrowhead Middle School.
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
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Instructional Coaches
Cecil Cristwell
Susan Gann
(2nd Cohort)
(3rd Cohort)
Jarius Jones
Monica Randle
(3rd Cohort)
(1st Cohort)
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
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Building Administrators
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Dr. Maritza Paul (2nd
cohort) is Assistant
Principal for Sumner
Academy after teaching at
Sumner and serving as
Assistant Principal at
Washington High School.
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
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Amy Carlson
(4th cohort) is
Assistant
Principal at
Eisenhower
Middle School
after teaching
at Eisenhower.
Fellows Emerge as Leaders
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Tyrone Bates
(2nd Cohort) works in
Family and Student
Services after teaching at
Wyandotte High School
and serving as Alternative
Certification Coordinator.
Testimonials
The Kansas City Teaching Fellows
program was a life-changing experience
for me. Not only did I receive much
needed support during my transition from
"Corporate America" to Education, I
finally felt that I was serving a more
meaningful and long-lasting purpose - to
educate America's youth. I have yet to
look back and regret the decision to leave
my old life behind because becoming a
teacher gave me a purpose. I enrich the
lives of children daily, and no amount of
money could ever bring me the
satisfaction I get from the smiling faces of
my students and their genuine spirits that
thirst for knowledge.
Holly Hutchko
Wyandotte High School
Testimonials
I’m not the teacher who has
30 years experience. They can
go circles around me as far as
theory and procedures.
At my age (60), I do
understand human nature.
Louie Gonzales
J.C. Harmon High School
I used to train soldiers for
high-stress combat missions.
This is job has similarities to
that one.
Report Envisions Shortage of
Teachers as Retirements
Escalate
By SAM DILLON
Published: April 7, 2009
Over the next four years, more than a third of the nation’s 3.2 million
teachers could retire, depriving classrooms of experienced instructors and
straining taxpayer-financed retirement systems, according to a new report.
The problem is aggravated by high attrition among rookie teachers, with
one of every three new teachers leaving the profession within five years, a
loss of talent that costs school districts millions in recruiting and training
expenses, says the report, by the National Commission on Teaching and
America’s Future, a nonprofit research advocacy group.
Summer Institute
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Instructional Design and Delivery
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Standards-based units and lesson plans
Assessments for learning
High-yield strategies
Grading and record-keeping
Scaffolding and modifications
Summer Institute
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Classroom Management
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Procedures and Routines
Room Design
Community-building
Character Development
Discipline System
Fail-proof Environment
Summer Institute
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Diverse Populations
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Race in America
White Privilege
Elements of Culture
Communication Styles
Racial Identity Development
Generational and Situational Poverty
Youth Culture
Handouts
Questions and Answers