The Minneapolis StarTribune had an interesting article yesterday about a new program in the St. Paul public schools in which professionals from other sectors other than education will be brought on board, be given intensive teacher training, and enter the classrooms immediately in an effort to fill vacancies and also increase the diversity of the workforce.
The program is Run through the New Teacher Project, which claims the following:
In the fight to eliminate educational inequality, teachers matter most.
The New Teacher Project works with school districts and states nationwide to recruit, select, train and hire exceptional teachers.
There is a great deal of work being done to explore new ways of getting teachers into the classrooms. There is no question that this work is a result of good intentions and progressive innovations.
What I'm most curious about will be how the systems that bring these new teachers into schools will work to merge these new teachers with the "traditional" teachers already in place. Since St. Paul is in our backyard, this will be a fascinating process to observe. The jury will be out for sometime in regards to how these programs affect student achievement and the the teaching force writ large.
Do programs such as these rub any of you the wrong way or is this an innovation that you can embrace?
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