Match Education, a Boston-based nonprofit that operates high-performing
urban public charter schools and a unique graduate school of education that trains teachers for
high-poverty schools, announced today a multi-year partnership with New Schools for New
Orleans (NSNO) to train approximately 15 instructional leaders per year in New Orleans
public charter schools.
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The Pioneer Institute of Public Policy Research released a detailed paper on the effectiveness of the Match Teacher Residency program. The research suggests that our teacher preparation program is a possible solution to the shortage of high-quality teachers and therefore, ought to be a model for other charter schools, district schools, and traditional schools of education.
Now that states are aligning their tests with the more rigorous Common Core standards, many students' proficiency rates are dropping. In order to increase these plummeting rates, much of today's research points to teacher quality as the most important influence on student achievement. USA TODAY highlighted Match's teacher prep program as one program in which teachers are trained extensively so that they are "competent in the real challenges they will face" in the classroom.
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Coursera, a major player in the world of providing "massively open online courses" in higher education, is making its first move into the world of K-12 schools through an effort to provide free training and professional development to teachers in the United States and other countries. Seven institutions and organizations have agreed to partner with the Mountain View, Calif.-based company in posting professional-development and teacher-training resources online, Coursera officials said. They include Match Education's Sposato Graduate School of Education.
Match Teacher Residency is highlighted in The New York Times editorial on reforming teacher training.
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This Education Week article highlights Match's teacher training program.
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March 6, 2012, Boston. Today, the Massachusett's Board of Higher Educaiton approved Match Education to form the Charlie Sposato Graduate School of Education.
The graduate school is the first such institution created in Massachusetts in several decades. It will carry the name of Charlie Sposato, in memory of the master teacher who taught 33 years in the Framingham Public Schools before becoming Match's founding principal in 2000.
The graduate school will grant a new degree called a Master in Effective Teaching (MET). The training is exhausting and uncompromising. To get the MET, teachers must do more than excel in coursework. They must also succeed during their first year as actual full-time teachers. During this rookie year, degree candidates will be evaluated based on several metrics -- including student achievement gains and neutral outside observers. Holding graduate students accountable for success in the actual classroom is unprecedented in Massachusetts.
The teaching faculty at the graduate school is comprised mainly of master teachers who have become principals in some of the nation's best charter and district turnaround schools.
The goal of the graduate school is to prepare jaw-droppingly good rookie teachers for urban charter and district turnaround schools -- folks who are so effective that they defy common perceptions of what level of success is possible for brand new teachers.
The graduate school will collaborate with other institutions which prepare teachers. They include several Boston area graduate schools of education as well as Boston Teacher Residency, as well as cutting edge groups nationally like the University of Michigan, Relay Graduate School of Education, and Teach For America.
This article by Jay Matthews profiles Mike Goldstein and the creation of the Sposato Graduate School of Education.
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This EdNext article by Sposato Graduate School of Education founder Mike Goldstein lays out many of the ideas behind the school and its approach to training teachers.
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