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Residency Partnership Development Framework
Get PDFThe Residency Partnership Development Framework identifies five distinct yet interconnected domains that are integral to achieving scalable shifts in the teacher preparation ecosystem that will allow all aspiring teachers to access high-quality, funded teacher residencies.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1003/thumbnail.jp
New York Early Care and Education Survey: Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on New York Early Childhood System
Get PDFThis is the first in a series of reports based upon a survey conducted with 3355 early childhood educators across New York City and New York State, which sought to understand how they were faring during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic (May 2020). Among the key findings were: (1) at that time the emotional stress of the pandemic was affecting respondents more than health and financial stressors; (2) Educators’ need for mental health supports exceed other areas of support requested; (3) approximately 70% were engaged in remote instruction in New York City and half were providing remote instruction in the rest of state; (4) approximately 1 in 5 program leaders reported that their program was closed and providing no services; (5) remote learning was prevalent, and staff were committed to, but struggling with, delivering engaging and developmentally meaningful approaches; (6) respondents were struggling to meet administrative demands, particularly related to documentation; (7) partnering with families was challenging, given varied circumstances and limited access to resources and learning materials; (8) approximately 60% of program leaders reported they were fully paying their staff; and (9) programs funded through parent fees were most frequently closed and had furloughed or laid off staff.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/sc/1001/thumbnail.jp
Shattering, Healing and Dreaming: Lessons from Middle-Grade Literacies and Lives
Get PDFIn the summer of 2018, I had the opportunity to read the words of Renée Watson, Jewell Parker-Rhodes, Jacqueline Woodson and Nikki Grimes alongside seventh and eighth graders. Our conversations were grounded in the students’ lives and in stories and poems crafted by Black women. I had the responsibility and honor to select the texts, develop the curriculum and co-create a space with students. The authors’ words helped students process not only the authors’ craft but also how students navigated issues from microaggressions to tensions in friendships, from the oppression experienced at the intersections of their identities to the role of art as healing. My planning was informed by culturally sustaining pedagogies (Au et.al., 2016; Paris & Alim, 2017) and critical bilingual literacies (España and Herrera, 2020). With this approach I sought to center the experiences of the students of color, particularly focusing on writing by Black women
Executive Summary: New York Early Care and Education Survey: Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on New York\u27s Early Childhood System
Get PDFThis is an abbreviated version of the first report based upon the New York COVID-19 and Early Care & Education Survey.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/sc/1002/thumbnail.jp
Asian American: a personal exploration of my identities and some possible implications for teachers
Get PDFAs the population of Asian Americans in the United States grows fast, so does the incidence of racist attacks on Asian Americans. The urgency for anti-racist educators to commit to learning how to best serve Asian American children, their families, and their communities in accordance with antiracist, counter hegemonic linguistic practices, and culturally sustaining principles grows exponentially. Through a deep reflection on my personal and often painful experience as a Korean immigrant in the United States, I use an interdisciplinary approach including Socio- and Racio-linguistics, Social Psychology, Anthropology, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, to analyze some of the challenges that I have experienced and observed throughout my life here as a student, teacher and permanent resident. My focus is primarily on three groups of Asian Americans from North Eastern Asia—China, Japan, and Korea. Included are some suggestions for teachers who want to learn more about recognizing, understanding, and being responsive to the myriad strengths that their Asian American students, families and communities bring. I conclude with an afterword that recent attacks on Asian Americans related to the COVID-19 crisis emboldened me to write
Interrupting Trauma with Hope, Kindness, Art and Healing
Get PDFArtForce Iowa is a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Des Moines Iowa. Founded in 2012, ArtForce Iowa has a mission to transform youth in need through art. ArtForce Iowa has pioneered a non-pathologizing approach to working with children targeted as in need of services. We offer a critical humanizing perspective through case studies. Seven youth artists are highlighted to provide windows into complicated, troubling, and hopeful effects of their relationship with their own healing. This article aims to shed light on the promise and innovation of authentic supportive kindness and youth leadership to support the social and emotional lives of children from marginalized communities
The Adverse Effects of Stereotyping and Bias on Health in Low Socioeconomic Communities
Get PDFStudies have shown that low socioeconomic status negatively affects health due to factors such as unstable access to secure environments, full-coverage healthcare, and quality of education. Members of these communities face further health adversities when confronting healthcare staff who are blind to these challenges, and more, that they experience. Several studies examined in this paper looked specifically at the intersects of low socioeconomic status and how they negatively affected the healthcare experience of individuals of these communities. Others demonstrate how having healthcare staff be knowledgeable of these adverse effects can lead to positive changes in the health of these community members. Examining these studies led to the conclusion that health and quality of healthcare of low socioeconomic patients are negatively affected as healthcare providers lack a phenomena known as cultural competence, and therefore it is through additional education and training on how to address these phenomena that healthcare staff such as physicians and Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS) can help diminish the health disparities plaguing these communities and thus break them out of a cycle of oppression
How California\u27s Teacher Residencies Are Helping to Solve Teacher Shortages and Strengthen Schools
Get PDFWith significant state investment teacher residencies are spreading throughout California. These vignettes highlight two California teacher residencies and how they are helping to address shortages and support both students and teachers. These examples also spotlight creative funding strategies that can help California’s investments in teacher residencies become sustainable over time.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/pt/1005/thumbnail.jp
Conversations about Death that are Provoked by Literature
Get PDFHow do teachers have conversations about death with young children? In this paper, I focus specifically on how teachers might support unplanned conversations that were provoked by children’s literature. In analyzing a series of events in which such conversations occurred, I argue that to do so required going against three conventions in literacy education: close reading, staying on task, and appropriate school talk. I then speak to how teacher educators might prepare teachers for these unexpected but important digressions
Family Engagement During COVID-19
Get PDFThis is an infographic summarizing findings from a survey conducted in May 2020 (n=3355) about how the COVID-19 was affecting early childhood educators in New York. Unsurprisingly, the survey responses reflected respondents\u27 multimodal creativity and professional commitment to connecting with children\u27s families. Responses also suggested some underlying tensions, such as school-centric notions of family engagement (i.e., more academically focused) vs. family-centric perspectives (i.e., offering emotional and material support to families). Ultimately the survey\u27s contribution lies in shedding some light on important, difficult-to-resolve issues that must be debated as the world moves towards post pandemic life (e.g., services, supports, and accessibility for dis/abled young children; supporting emerging multilingualism; demands on parents\u27 time - including parents who were teachers balancing their children\u27s teachers\u27 engagement expectations).https://educate.bankstreet.edu/sc/1004/thumbnail.jp