Work group product
- Bilingual teacher pipeline work group executive summary (document)
- Recommendations: policies, funding, and programmatic (document)
- Paraprofessional survey summary findings (presentation)
- District interview findings (document)
- Teacher pipeline resources “Grow Your Own” resources
Purpose
The Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) has convened and facilitates the bilingual teacher pipeline work group. The work group is primarily HR and English Language Learner (ELL) directors from the road map districts (Auburn, Federal Way, Highline, Kent, Renton, Seattle, and Tukwila). The charge for the work group is to determine best practices and strategies for recruiting, developing, and eventually transitioning bilingual para professionals and others into certificated teaching roles. The work group has been charged to do the following:
- Develop a feasibility study that includes the needs of potential candidates, demand for bilingual and dual language teachers, opportunities, and barriers for strengthening “Grow Your Own” programs in the districts.
- Identify and develop common strategies among districts to strengthen “Grow Your Own” with local policies that support growth of bilingual educators.
Work group participants
Meeting information and materials
| Meeting | Date | Materials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 28, 2016 | Agenda (PDF) |
| 2 | February 25, 2016 | Agenda (PDF) |
| 3 | March 24, 2016 | Agenda (PDF) |
| 4 | April 21, 2016 | Agenda (PDF) |
| 5 | May 19, 2016 | Agenda (PDF) |
| 6 | May 26, 2016 | Agenda (PDF) |
Resources
- Dewitt Wallace, (2001) Evaluation of the DeWitt Wallace reader’s digest fund’s pathway to teaching careers program (PDF)
- National Center for Education Statistics and HIS Global Insight (2014) Projections of education statistics to 2022 (PDF)
- One America., (2015) Reducing brain waste: creating career pathways for foreign-educated immigrants in Washington State (PDF)
- PESB, (2016) Self-assessment of a Washington P-12 and preparation program partnership
- PESB, (2014) Best practices & successful programs, improving recruitment & retention of underrepresented populations: a guide for teacher preparation programs (PDF)
- PESB (2015). K-12 education paraeducator development work group (PDF)
- PESB, (2014) Recruitment & retention of underrepresented populations in teacher preparation programs: a self-assessment tool (PDF)
- PESB (2014) Classroom teacher & student demographics in Washington State: analysis of changes over time (PDF)
- Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, etal. (2012). District and school data team toolkit (PDF)
