DOI
10.1007/978-981-99-0807-3_3
Abstract
This chapter details how university and school partners leveraged a potentially harmful licensing policy to address both short- and long- term problems caused by a critical teacher shortage. The shortage is primarily concentrated in schools that serve a large number of students living in poverty where school administrators increasingly hire unqualified and inexperienced teachers using a temporary licensing policy that was not designed for this purpose. Prompted by concern over the impact these unqualified teachers will have on economically disadvantaged students, faculty from a university preparation program and leaders from a large public K-12 urban–suburban school division in the Greater Richmond region of Virginia collaborated to innovate possible solutions. The school-university partnership reimagined ways to utilize the temporary licensing policy and reallocate resources to financially support a newly conceived teacher residency and induction support model designed to quickly fill vacant teaching positions in high-poverty schools while simultaneously improving the retention of quality teachers. Within this new model, the temporary licensing policy is repurposed as a mechanism to maintain cost neutrality and therefore guarantee long-term sustainability of the residency and support model without external funding. Initial findings from the first two years of program implementation suggest a positive impact on teacher effectiveness and retention in high-poverty schools.
Document Type
Restricted Book Chapter: Campus only access
ISBN
9789819908066
Publication Date
5-18-2023
Publisher Statement
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Recommended Citation
Napoli, D., Kuti, L., Spires, B. (2023). Leveraging Existing Policy for a University/K-12 Partnership: Using a Teacher Residency and Induction Model to Address a Teacher Shortage in Virginia, USA. In: Acquaro, D., Bradbury, O.J. (eds) International Perspectives on School-University Partnerships. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0807-3_3