Program Exemplar

The University of Delaware's alternative certification program supports candidates to earn a teaching degree and certification while being concurrently employed in public schools as full-time paraeducators and later as teachers serving students with disabilities.

This block grant provides funding for educator preparation programs, districts, and candidate conditional loan scholarships to support alternative route programs.

This grant supports Minnesota's efforts to increase the diversity of the educator workforce by expanding alternative educator preparation programs in a variety of licensure areas to attract a more diverse pool of candidates.

This framework from the Pennsylvania Department of Education outlines program guidelines, competencies, and rubrics for state-recognized general and subject-specific alternative educator preparation programs.

The Quality Indicators provide a framework to assist nontraditional teacher preparation programs in conducting self-assessment of their accountability, design, and governance practices for teacher recruitment, selection, preparation, and support.

This bill contains specific provisions related to the operation and funding of alternative teacher preparation programs in Wisconsin.

This grant supports the Tennessee Department of Education's effort to increase the diversity of the educator workforce by providing awards to school districts to create Grow Your Own programs aimed at recruiting minority teachers.

This bill aims to improve teacher recruitment and retention in Hawaii by providing housing vouchers to full-time public school and charter school teachers who teach in hard-to-fill positions.

This bill supports efforts to mitigate teacher shortages in rural Colorado school districts by offering retired educators additional benefits for re-entering the workforce to serve as teachers or other school personnel positions.

This bill provides the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing with funding to administer a competitive grant program that assists local educational agencies in attracting and supporting the preparation and continued learning of teachers, principals, and other school leaders in high-need subjects and schools.