Council Receives $600,000 Award from Wachovia Foundation
August 7, 2005
On July 14 th at the Annual Council for Educational Change PASS meeting in Tampa, the Council was awarded $600,000 by the Wachovia Foundation to continue and scale-up their Teachers and Teaching Initiative program.
The award funds the program for three years. It builds off last year’s successful program, also funded by the Foundation. It focus was and will be the creation and implementation of innovative strategies to develop and retain new and beginning teachers. It was conducted at 16 schools in the Council’s PASS network with 19 teacher mentors, working with 86 mentees.
Program strengths included:
layered approach that trained superstar teacher mentors to train new and beginning teachers
blended delivery system, combining technology and face time
special workshops
specially developed communications platform for networking
onsite mentoring
support of the Principal and Council PASS coaches and coordinators
use of technology
special Academy experience
cutting-edge research-based learning modules providing a wealth of information including mentoring resources, best practices, reading standards and use of student achievement data
continual accessibility of the mentors to the new teachers
