NACCTEP Educational Partner the IRIS Center is back to share their latest initiatives. Listen as Sarah Semon shares about the recent release of the two-part module series on addressing challenging behaviors at the secondary level, the revised module on Universal Design Learning (UDL), and the IRIS Prep Talks Priority Practice Series, which will be held throughout the fall beginning on September 22, 2023. Check out the new modules here: Addressing Challenging Behaviors (Part 1, Secondary): Understanding the Acting-Out Cycle Addressing Challenging Behaviors (Part 2, Secondary): Behavioral Strategies Universal Design for Learning: Designing Learning Experiences That Engage and Challenge All Students For additional information on the IRIS Prep Talks series and to register for upcoming sessions, please visit our News & Events page: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/news-and-events/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Join us as Tim Neubert, the Executive Director of the American Association for Employment in Education, AAEE, discusses the history of the organization as well as several upcoming initiatives. This includes their annual conference and career expo being held in Chicago, Illinois October 23rd - 26th this year. Mr. Neubert also shares information on new surveys that have or will be sent out in the next few months related to AAEE's publications surrounding supply and demand in the K-12 realm as well as new work with Youngstown State University in Ohio on what new teachers need for job satisfaction. In December, AAEE will launch their annual teacher scholarships as well as program mini-grants. Mr. Neubert also talks about why he recommends the book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Hear NACCTEP Executive Director Julie Ferin and NACCTEP Executive Board President Dr. Lennon Audrain discuss upcoming events and initiatives for the 2023-24 academic year. Items discussed include ways NACCTEP will seek to expand its reach, the 3rd Annual Fall Institute, and the upcoming Pre-Conference ahead of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, AACTE, annual conference in Denver in February 2024. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

In this episode we hear from Tonja Eagan, the CEO of Kappa Delta Pi, on what the KDP organization provides to teacher candidates, new teachers, and veteran teachers. We learn the origins of this national honor society in 1911 as a place to honor and celebrate all high-achieving teacher candidates, including women and teachers of color who were dismissed by a prominent educational honor society of that time. Ms. Eagan also discusses the latest partnerships and initiatives of KDP including members having full access to the Teaching Channel resources; a virtual half-day Annual New Teacher National Summit; and a quality-of-life initiative, The Rooted Teacher by KDP. The Rooted Teacher includes monthly podcasts, virtual coaching and support sessions, and weekly microlearning videos. Additionally, KDP will be hosting a 2-day in-person conference in St. Louis - Convo: The Premier Conference for Future Educators. They are anticipating over 700 participants at this event to learn about innovative techniques and ideas for teaching. More information on this event can be found on their website at https://www.kdp.org/events/convo2023. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include; Dr. Cheri St. Arnauld who served as the Executive Director from the onset of the organization in 2001 until 2007, she now serves as the President and Chief Academic Officer of Aspen University,  Welcome Dr. St. Arnauld.Dr. Ray Ostos served as the Executive Director from 2007  until  2012 and he is the District Director of Student Affairs for Maricopa Community Colleges, Welcome Dr. Ostos.Mrs. Kim Tobey served as the Executive Director from 2012 until 2020 and she is the Director of Teacher Education Initiatives and Innovations for Rio Salado College, Welcome Mrs. Tobey.Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn served as President of NACCTEP from 2019 until  2022, and she currently serves as our Past President, Welcome Dr. Gronberg-Quinn. Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question, Based on your experiences, what do you see for the next 20 years of NACCTEP? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include; Dr. Cheri St. Arnauld who served as the Executive Director from the onset of the organization in 2001 until 2007, she now serves as the President and Chief Academic Officer of Aspen University,  Welcome Dr. St. Arnauld.Dr. Ray Ostos served as the Executive Director from 2007  until  2012 and he is the District Director of Student Affairs for Maricopa Community Colleges, Welcome Dr. Ostos.Mrs. Kim Tobey served as the Executive Director from 2012 until 2020 and she is the Director of Teacher Education Initiatives and Innovations for Rio Salado College, Welcome Mrs. Tobey.Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn served as President of NACCTEP from 2019 until  2022, and she currently serves as our Past President, Welcome Dr. Gronberg-Quinn. Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following Lightening Round Question, If you could make a wish and change any one thing about community college or teacher education at large, what would it be and why? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include; Dr. Cheri St. Arnauld who served as the Executive Director from the onset of the organization in 2001 until 2007, she now serves as the President and Chief Academic Officer of Aspen University,  Welcome Dr. St. Arnauld.Dr. Ray Ostos served as the Executive Director from 2007  until  2012 and he is the District Director of Student Affairs for Maricopa Community Colleges, Welcome Dr. Ostos.Mrs. Kim Tobey served as the Executive Director from 2012 until 2020 and she is the Director of Teacher Education Initiatives and Innovations for Rio Salado College, Welcome Mrs. Tobey.Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn served as President of NACCTEP from 2019 until  2022, and she currently serves as our Past President, Welcome Dr. Gronberg-Quinn. Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question, During your time at NACCTEP, what was your biggest accomplishment? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include; Dr. Cheri St. Arnauld who served as the Executive Director from the onset of the organization in 2001 until 2007, she now serves as the President and Chief Academic Officer of Aspen University,  Welcome Dr. St. Arnauld.Dr. Ray Ostos served as the Executive Director from 2007  until  2012 and he is the District Director of Student Affairs for Maricopa Community Colleges, Welcome Dr. Ostos.Mrs. Kim Tobey served as the Executive Director from 2012 until 2020 and she is the Director of Teacher Education Initiatives and Innovations for Rio Salado College, Welcome Mrs. Tobey.Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn served as President of NACCTEP from 2019 until  2022, and she currently serves as our Past President, Welcome Dr. Gronberg-Quinn. Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question When you first started with NACCTEP, what was the biggest “thing” going on in community college teacher education? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include; Dr. Cheri St. Arnauld who served as the Executive Director from the onset of the organization in 2001 until 2007, she now serves as the President and Chief Academic Officer of Aspen University,  Welcome Dr. St. Arnauld.Dr. Ray Ostos served as the Executive Director from 2007  until  2012 and he is the District Director of Student Affairs for Maricopa Community Colleges, Welcome Dr. Ostos.Mrs. Kim Tobey served as the Executive Director from 2012 until 2020 and she is the Director of Teacher Education Initiatives and Innovations for Rio Salado College, Welcome Mrs. Tobey.Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn served as President of NACCTEP from 2019 until  2022, and she currently serves as our Past President, Welcome Dr. Gronberg-Quinn. Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question During your time in NACCTEP, what do you think was the biggest challenge community teacher education faced? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Megan Kaplinsky, department head of Reading and Teacher Preparation at Long Beach City College as well as current President of ACCCTEP, Association of California Community Colleges Teacher Education Programs, discusses the programs available both at her college and throughout the California Community Colleges. She shares how the California Colleges banded together during the pandemic to create alternative fieldwork options for students in their programs. Born out of that same collaboration are ongoing workshops, online conferences, and regional meetings that address critical issues in teacher preparation. Megan also shares how her school is addressing the diversity, equity, and inclusion issues ongoing throughout the classrooms of California and across the nation. They are focusing on utilizing an ethnic studies lens having created a teacher education course specifically on ethnic studies. To learn more about this lens she recommends Rethinking Ethnic Studies by R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, and Wayne Au as well as Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research by Christine Sleeter and Miguel Zavala. If you would like to learn more about ACCCTEP you can visit their website at accctep.org or reach out to her directly at mkaplinsky@lbcc.edu. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner is an associate professor at Louisiana State University with a special interest in teacher mental health in the early childhood education and care arena. Her work with future and current teachers features in her many journal articles. In this episode we learn tips on coping mechanisms and strategies including making time for deep thinking and setting boundaries. Dr. Baumgartner references the work of Fred Rogers as well as Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach in addition to Brad Montague's Becoming Better Grownups. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Meet Danielle Savory-Seggerson of Lansing Community College as she discusses the challenges of transitioning from in-person instruction to online synchronous and asynchronous instruction. She shares the tips and tricks of how she ensures she is able to offer inclusive interactions with students in all of these settings and how she personalizes how she interacts with her students. The books that she feels have most helped her in offering inclusive instruction include Tracie Addy's What Inclusive Teachers Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching and Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equality in the College Classroom by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy. She has also adapted a student information Google form that Michelle Pacansky-Brock has on her website brocansky.com. In addition to these valuable resources, Danielle also recommends James Lang's Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning sharing that small changes can lead to bigger results. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

In this episode we talk with Dr. Ingrid Anderson, Program Coordinator for the Infant/Toddler Mental Health graduate certificate and Co-Coordinator for the Masters of Early Childhood Inclusive Education. Dr. Anderson is the co-author with Jean Barbre of Supporting Children's Mental Health and Well-Being: A Strength-Based Perspective as well as Caring for Self: A Workbook for Early Childhood Educator Well-Being coming in early 2024. She discusses the importance of recognizing, respecting and caring for the mental health of young children, but also of recognizing, respecting, and caring for the mental health of the teachers. Care of self, different from self-care, is critical for teachers in order to be able to positively impact the mental health of the students. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

In this episode we meet Dr. Andrianna Smyrniotis who was able to adapt Illinois Central College's stackable early childhood certificates and degree program during the pandemic both through having a Children's Center on campus to use as a learning lab as well as through The Tank's Remote Field Experiences: Observations and Videos on the ACCESS website - www.accessece.org. You can contact ACCESS at accessece@wildapricot.org Illinois Central College has three levels to their early childhood program, a Basic certificate which is their most popular program, an Advanced certificate which builds on the Basic certificate, and an Associate of Applied Science which builds on the Advanced certificate and is transferable to Bachelor degree programs in the state. Her wish is that all college and university programs align their educator preparation to NAEYC's Power to the Profession or something similar. Dr. Smyrniotis recommends a couple of books for educators. The first is by Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes which speaks to how teachers can improve their classroom skills and reactions. The second book is a guide to help educators take care of themselves which is such a critical thing to continuing to be a quality educator, Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators by Julie Nicholson, Priya Driscoll, Julie Kurtz, Domenica Marquez, and LaWanda Wesley. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

In this episode of Voices from the Field we meet Melissa Rees who led the charge to create coursework for educators on autism. The coursework she created and that is taught through a partnership with ACES for Autism provides current and future educators with the hours of instruction and experience to qualify for the National Behavioral Specialist exam to become an certified technician. The curriculum is also available as a 16-hour certificate for existing educators. Ms. Rees also discusses the book American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins about an immigrant family from Mexico and the struggles that they and their children experience. She recommends this book as a good source for educators, both in the P-12 and the higher education realms, to better understand their students.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

In this episode we hear from Dr. Erin Crisp, Executive Director of the Tennessee Grow Your Own Center for the University of Tennessee system.  The recently formed center works with the first apprenticeship program approved by the US Department of Education in response to the teacher shortage in Tennessee.  Dr. Crisp discusses the three key stakeholders the center interacts with across 141 school districts and 9 educator preparation programs in the state's 95 counties.  Building on a history of 65 localized grow your own programs in the state, the center seeks to mitigate and strengthen the partnerships between the EPPs and districts to streamline the pathway for potential teachers to enter the classroom as confident, successful educators. For anyone interested in learning more about the Tennessee Grow Your Own Center for the University of Tennessee System please visit GrowYourOwn.tennessee.edu or contact the center via email at growyourown@tennessee.edu.  Dr. Erin Crisp can be reached via email at ecrisp4@tennessee.edu.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

In this episode from our Voices in the Field series we hear from Julie Powers, Department Chair of Social Sciences and Program Coordinator for Early Childhood Education at the University of Hawai'i - Maui College.  She discusses some of the challenges unique to teacher preparation in the Hawaiian islands as well as innovations that were born out of the pandemic.  She also extends an invitation for listeners to consider working in the University of Hawai'i system. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Dr. Allison Landy, an Associate Dean for Educator Preparation at Northland Pioneer College in Holbrook, Arizona discusses not only the challenges and innovations born of the pandemic, but also the ever-present challenges of working with a student population in the remote areas of the Four Corners tribal lands.  Dr. Landy also expounds on the importance of working with tribal and indigenous students, especially in the early childhood education realm.  She also shares her wish for teachers to be leaders who are unafraid to speak up when faced with bad policies or practices. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Meet Heather Merrill, a Residential Faculty member and  Assistant Chair of Social Sciences Leading the Teacher Education Program at Glendale Community College in the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona. Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is one of the nation's largest community college systems, with 10 regionally accredited colleges across Maricopa County serving over 100,000 students each year. The district received accreditation approval from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) for a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary and Special Education, which will be the first community college in the state. Heather has been an integral part of the development of the Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education, and Special Education which includes three of colleges; Glendale, Paradise Valley, and Rio Salado College. Listen to the following NACCTEP Now Podcast to hear more about how Heather is positively impacting the teacher shortage.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message

Join NACCTEP's Executive Director, Julie Ferin as she speaks with Emma McCallie, a Senior Director in the Grow Your Own Tennessee Department of Education. The Tennessee Department of Education is the first state in the country to be approved by the U.S. Department of Labor to establish a permanent Grow Your Own Model between local K-12 school districts and Educator Preparation Programs. Listen to Emma describe how the Teacher Occupation Apprenticeship program came to be, and the struggles, triumphs, and takeaways that have positively impacted their teacher shortages.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nacctep/message