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Texas to give extra credit to teachers who train like doctors in residency programs
Publication: Dallas Morning News | 
Date: April 17, 2024
By: Karen Dooley

Texas teachers who are trained through intensive residency programs — similar to the pathway doctors take — will soon get extra recognition.

Strengthening Pathways Into the Teaching Profession in Texas: Challenges and Opportunities

Publication: Learning Policy Institute 
Date: February 22, 2023
By: Jennifer A. Bland Steve Wojcikiewicz Linda Darling-Hammond Wesley Wei

Systemic challenges for the Texas teacher workforce result from a large yearly demand for new teachers, exacerbated by high and climbing teacher attrition rates. As a result of these challenges, a large majority of new teachers are now hired before they complete preparation. 
 

Benefits of Teacher Residency Programs
Publication: TASB Website
Date: April 8, 2022
By: Karen Dooley

Teacher residency programs are providing significant benefits to school districts, teacher residents, and the students they serve as teacher vacancies are on the rise.

Statewide Texas Teacher Residency Programs and Practices

Publication: TEA/Texas Strategic Staffing
 

Teacher residency programs continue to grow in the state of Texas. As of Fall 2023, the state has vetted 37 programs for the purpose of LEA partnership in specific residency grants.

Strategic Staffing Models: The Models We Implement

Publication: TEA/Texas Strategic Staffing

Teacher residencies, in which candidates spend a full year student teaching under the guidance of a highly effective mentor teacher, provide candidates with the sheltered practice and support future teachers need to learn how to teach before they are responsible for their own classrooms.

Strategic Staffing Models: The Approach We Model 

Publication: TEA/Texas Strategic Staffing

Texas Strategic Staffing (TSS) is a 2-year process in which a district and Education Preparation Program (EPP) commit to designing and implementing a paid teacher residency program that is sustainably funded by reallocating district resources to compensate teacher residents who take on additional instructional responsibilities in the district while completing a year-long teacher residency program.
 

US PREP Residencies

Publication: University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation

Graduates from four different US PREP Coalition universities speak out about the positive impact of yearlong, paid residencies and high-quality preparation on them and their students.