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Alaska ACTE Conference: “Growing Stronger Together”
Mark Perna brings vast expertise in enrollment, engagement, retention and performance to the 2016 Professional Development Conference (PDC). An active member of ACTE, Mark Perna has addressed Career Technical audiences all over the nation. Building a strong workforce for Alaska starts in our Career Technical Education programs. Mark will deliver a message to inspire and motivate audiences to reach out and engage our community and students in CTE.
Interested in being a presenter at the 2016 PDC? Submit your proposal here.
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Scholarship Program Boosts Training for Alaska Native Teachers
While 15 percent of the state’s population is Alaska Native, fewer than 5 percent of its teachers are.
To address this imbalance, the U.S. Department of Education and the University of Alaska Southeast have teamed up to create a scholarship program to groom future teachers and administrators while they’re still in college.
Read the full article here.
Source: Scholarship program boosts training for Alaska Native teachers
PITAAS Program Seeks to Increase Number of Alaska Native Teachers
Preparing Indigenous Teachers and Administrators for Alaska Schools (PITAAS), a scholarship program through the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), is designed to help Alaska Natives earn a degree in education.
PITAAS’s goal is to have more Alaska Native Teachers and administrators in Alaska’s schools. As it stands, Alaska Natives make up 25 percent of the student body and less than five percent of the teaching force according to UAS.
Eligible students are Alaska Native students with junior or senior standing enrolled in undergraduate Teacher Preparation Programs, post graduate Teacher Certification Programs, and Graduate Certificates, Endorsements and Master of Education (M.Ed.) Programs.
Go to www.uas.edu/education to learn more.
UAF Restarts Future Educators of Alaska with Clubs in Nome and BSSD
About 16 percent of teachers in Nome turn over every decade. In the Bering Strait School District (BSSD), the turnover rate is even higher: 28 percent.
According to Nome Superintendent Shawn Arnold, part of the problem is that so few rural educators are homegrown.
“A disproportionate number of teachers trained outside Alaska are hired to teach in Alaska’s rural schools,” he said. “These are the teachers coming up from the Lower 48. Many are new to the teaching profession, they’re just starting out their careers, and they’re unprepared for the cultural competence for living in a rural Alaska Native village.”
That’s why Nome Public Schools is helping to restart the Future Educators of Alaska. The program died five years ago, due to lack of funding, but the University of Alaska Fairbanks is bringing it back with a new federal grant. Read the full article here.
Source: KNOM Radio Mission
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