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978-1-60709-870-6 • Hardback • August 2012 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-60709-871-3 • Paperback • August 2012 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
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Karen Embry-Jenlink, EdD, is a professor of doctoral studies within the department of secondary education and educational leadership in the James I. Perkins College of Education at Stephen F. Austin State University.
List of Figures
Editor’s Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Teacher Career Pathways: An Historical Context
Karen Embry Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University
Overview
Karen Embry Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University
Chapter 1: Preparing A Diverse, Highly-Skilled Teacher Workforce: A Retrospective Examination
Karen Embry Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University
Section II: Addressing Teacher Supply and Demand in the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Urban Teacher Enhancement Program: A Promising Career Pathway Model for the Preparation of Teachers for Urban Schools
Deborah Voltz, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chapter 3: Infect Your Own: Delaware’s Academic Support Program Inspiring Renaissance Educators (ASPIRE)
Melva L. Ware, University of Delaware
Chapter 4: Grow Your Own Illinois: Taking Action in Chicago Neighborhood Schools
Anne Hallett, Grow Your Own Illinois
Chapter 5: The Online Completer Program: A Regional Teacher Pipeline with 22 Community Colleges in Rural East Texas
Dawn Michelle Williams and Paula Griffin, Stephen F. Austin State University
Chapter 6: CERRA: A Statewide Pipeline for Teacher Recruitment, Preparation and Induction in South Carolina
Gayle Sawyer, Center for Recruitment, Retention and Advancement
Part III: Closing the Gaps Through Teacher Career Pathways
Chapter 7: Building Teacher Career Pathways For College Access, Readiness, and Success
Heather Zavadsky and Kelty Garby, The Texas High School Project
Chapter 8: The Role of Social Capital in Student Persistence and Retention in Career Pathways: A Theoretical Framework
Gregory M. Bouck, Caddo Parish Schools, Shreveport, Louisiana
Chapter 9: Teacher Career Pathways and Educational Policy: A Quick Fix or Long-Term Solution?
Leslie Huling and Virginia Resta, Texas State University
Chapter 10 Coda: An Emerging Portrait of Responsive Teacher Preparation
Karen Embry Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University
About the Editor and Contributors
America must intentionally recruit great teachers beginning in high school because at the end of the day, great teachers make great schools. In her book, Dr. Embry Jenlink assembled descriptions of the best teacher recruitment and induction programs in the U.S. Her book is carefully researched and thoughtfully edited. I highly recommend it to anyone who is committed to transforming America's schools, making them the best in the world.
— William J. Bushaw, executive director, PDK International, a sponsor of the federally recognized Future Educators Association
Teacher Preparation in Career Pathways: An Emerging Portrait of America's Teacher Pipeline offers important insights about the multiculturalization of today's classroom and presents compelling arguments and strategies for recruiting and retaining a diverse teacher workforce. This timely book is an excellent resource for informing the dialogue on possible changes in teacher preparation models to address the need for teachers from underrepresented populations and critical subject fields.
— Faye Snodgress, executive director, Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, Indianapolis, IN
The complexities of our modern world present constant challenges for today's classroom teachers. In the teacher career pathway model presented by Professor Karen Embry Jenlink, she provides an intelligent and well-designed blueprint for developing highly qualified teachers who will be equipped to meet those challenges.
— Ken Zornes, executive director, Texas Business and Education Coalition
The role of excellent teachers, particularly in high-needs schools, selected teaching fields, and under served populations, has been recognized as the most important in-school factor in individual student performance. Teacher Preparation in Career Pathways: The Future of America's Teacher Pipeline represents a comprehensive look at emerging teacher recruitment and preparation models which seek to answer this growing need for great teachers.
— David Ritchey, executive director, Association of Teacher Educators
Teacher Preparation in Career Pathways recognizes and inspires educators who courageously innovate to prepare teachers along a career pathway that addresses persistent teacher shortages in geographic areas with chronic hiring needs and ongoing vacancies. Exfoliating threats to teacher supply due to impending retirements and changing P-12 student demographics render this book as a must read for deans, superintendents, university and college professors, teachers, and parents. The authors trumpet a reverberating call for responsive teacher preparation across the United States that resound our urgent charge to recruit, train, and retain a more diverse teacher workforce in critical fields in high-need schools.
— Belinda Gimbert Ph.D., associate profesor, Ohio State University