The Professional Educator Standards Board Task Force on Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Well-Qualified Math and Science Teachers met Wednesday morning to continue its work in figuring out how to address Washington’s math and science teacher shortage.
Featured presenters included representatives from Teach For America, The New Teacher Project, school districts and the Center for Teaching Quality.
Ify Offor, vice president of new site development for TFA, presented to the Task Force, followed by Ariela Rozman, CEO of TNTP. This was the only part of the meeting I was able to attend; the presentations were informative along with the following Q-&-A sessions.
The big issues for Task Force members were cost, retention and feasibility. Jennifer Wallace said quite plainly that there are no statutory barriers to TFA coming to Washington. TNTP is hired as a consultant by districts, states and universities, so no barriers exist to its being hired by Washington stakeholders.
Check out the meeting materials here for some interesting reads. Click on the following links to learn more about TFA and TNTP.
