I am so grateful to our membership for their contributions to our shared work in my first year as President. NJACTE is an entirely volunteer-run membership association. Each of us has our own busy professional and personal life, yet month after month, we continue to make time to support quality educator preparation. I know I […]
This month’s blog comes to us from Jeanne DelColle, NJACTE member. Teacher shortages are not a new phenomenon, but the shortages of the past were largely focused in urban areas and in subjects such as STEM and world languages. Now, teacher shortages are ubiquitous across subjects and geography while there are also calls for a […]
This month’s blog post was written with our colleagues at Montclair State and Rutgers Universities and is cross-featured on the New Jersey State Policy Lab website, the organization that is funding their project. Educator preparation programs (EPPs) in New Jersey are engaged in a nonstop cycle of recruiting, training, and graduating teachers for the state, which has experienced […]