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 […]
Standardized Testing – Surprising Case Study
Jamaal Bowman is a middle school principle in the Bronx’s district 11 with a 99% black and Hispanic population and students who are academically struggling. While they outperform the district as a whole on standardized testing, they underperform relative to city averages with only 23% on grade level for English and 25% for Math. He’s […]
Who Needs the DASA Workshop?
Who has to get trained? DASA Workshop training is required for ANYONE applying for any school certification. This includes anyone applying for Guidance, Teacher, Administration, PPS, School Psychologist, etc… [button link=”http://www.citeeducation-strose.com/login-and-reserve-courses/”]Register Here[/button] We can help! We’re offering the 6-hour course in two convenient options! Cost: $95 Schedule: You can attend EITHER a 6 hour workshop on the […]
Teach for America Layoffs
Teach for America is laying off 15% of their staff, following cuts last year as well. They are spinning this as shifting from a centralized model to a more regional model, but that’s just “PR nonsense.” The core reason is simply that their recruitment looks down for a third straight year and their fundraising is […]
Westchester School Counselor Certification
Alfred University and CITE are proud to expand our School Counselor Certification Program to Westchester. Designed for NYS Certification in School Counseling 1/3 the cost of similar programs –$1095 for 3 credits! Weekend courses 22 months, 48 credits in Downtown Brooklyn, Oceanside, and now Westchester. Cohort Program – perfect for networking during and after your program. […]
SBL Graduate Success Spotlight – C Davis
We’re happy to celebrate SBL graduate success! Crystal Davis is the Assistant Principal / Co-Director at the Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights, and a graduate of Cohort 44 of the College of St. Rose SBL (School Building Leader) Program. We recently got the opportunity to catch up with Crystal about her training, and […]
School Crowding
Here’s a link to a WNYC article about school crowding and new construction. http://www.wnyc.org/story/city-budget-beefs-up-school-construction-doesnt-ease-overcrowding/ Basically, the city has changed how it calculates the amount of seats available, so that it now needs to build 83,000 new seats, rather than the 33,000 it had previously stated it needed. That’s going to cost 5.4 Billion dollars over […]
NYC Teacher Shortage Looms
The media is starting to understand that there will be a teacher shortage, given how the current group of teachers skews older, enrollments in teacher training programs are declining precipitously, and people interested in teaching are turned off by the extent of testing. This article from Politico NY posits that it’s time to take a look […]
