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Alternative route to teaching certification redesign work group

Work group product

Purpose

The role of the work group is to discuss the future direction of the alternative routes to certification and provide guidance for future design strategies for alternate route programs.

Prioritized approaches

  • Increase diversity of the educator workforce
  • Increase practices that support retention programming and policy
  • Encourage deep partnerships with teacher preparation programs and districts to meet workforce needs
  • Focus on making recruitment and placement more measurable

Meeting information and materials

Meeting Date Materials
1 December 12, 2014

Meeting notes (document)

PowerPoint

2 January 29, 2015 Meeting notes (document)
3 February 19, 2015 Meeting notes (document)
4 March 12, 2015 Meeting notes (document)
5 April 2, 2015 Meeting notes (document)
Next meeting: See Alternative Route Block Grant informational meetings in June for more information. Contact Alexandra.Manuel@k12.wa.us if you would like to attend.

Resources

  • RCW 28A.660.040
  • Route descriptions
  • Application for new alternative route programs
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  • Alternative Route to Teaching Block Grant

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