A Letter From CITE Alumni Coordinator Joshua Davis
Good Day and Greetings Dear current Students and Alumni of CITE’s partner programs, As the new Alumni Coordinator for this organization, it is my privilege to work with talented and diverse students and professionals to meet our mission — offering affordable and practical training, certification, and degrees for working professionals. We started this new position […]
Model School – PS 160 Serves ELL Students
The New York Times published this article on PS 160’s immigrant community, and the services that the school offers to support the students and their families. It’s an impressive all-hands network of ELL and family-involvement strategies driven from the Principal and APs through the teachers and Parent Coordinator. Here’s an excerpt: “P.S. 160, the William T. […]
Let us Pay for your GRE or MAT
The State now requires the GRE or MAT for entry into all teacher education programs. We know that this is a hassle, and an expense. To make things easier for you, CITE will cover the $205 cost of the GRE (or the cost of the MAT) if you are accepted and start the College of Mount […]
Dissertation Completion – Instructor Spotlight
A new book : “Dissertation Completion Guide: A Chapter-by-Chapter Nontechnical Guide for Graduate Research Projects” has just been released this month. The Author, Dr. Daniel S. Alemu, teaches research methods courses at The Sage Colleges’ doctor of education program where he is also the director of doctoral research. Dr. Alemu received his PhD from Illinois […]
The Teacher Shortage is Coming
We just saw an article that had two interesting pieces of information about an impending teacher shortage. The first really interesting piece of information is that in a four year period, people enrolled in teacher education majors went from 79,000 to 42,000 in New York State. That’s an enormous decline. It wouldn’t matter so much […]
NJ Standardized Test Problems
Adding to our post from the other day about Alaska’s test troubles, we now have this story from New Jersey where students were left staring at blank screens instead of taking the standardized test. New Jersey blamed Pearson, Pearson deferred questions to the PARCC consortium which Pearson formed but is a group of states who […]
Test Prep in a Renewal School
WNYC has a nice audio piece on test prep done right, in a renewal school. The renewal school seems to understand that testing results are a function of how well they teach all year long. They are using, though they don’t use this term, “formative” assessments to understand where they are weak and then giving […]
Alumni Success – Director of Early Childhood, District 11
Deborah L. Alford is the District 11 Director of Early Childhood Education. Before that, she worked at The James Mc Cune Smith Community School 200, in Harlem, as a Testing Coordinator, Pre-K Supervisor, AIS Liaison, Saturday Academy Instructor for the English Language Learners (ELLS), and Early Childhood Specialist. Deborah graduated in 2008 from Cohort 18 in our […]
