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Teaching Broke My Heart. That’s Why I Resigned.<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Natalie Parmenter
\nAfter 10 mostly-good years in the classroom, the 2021-22 school year was enough to push Natalie Parmenter out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

This is how the last year of teaching went for me. As I sized up each day, hardly anything on my to-do list involved nurturing and guiding my kindergarteners. I was always completing tasks for other people\u2014school leadership, district leadership, state officials\u2014at the expense of the students in my care.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

School boards have kicked things into overdrive to make up for lost time. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. There\u2019s always been a degree of this in education as the pendulum swings back and forth, but last year, it reached a boiling point.
\n…
\nThey say teaching is \u201ca work of the heart,\u201d and indeed, it is. But it became increasingly difficult to love that work as my heart hardened last year, and as all the bits of joy I once felt from my job were chipped away.<\/p>\n

PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown<\/strong><\/a> — from hechingerreport.org by Jill Barshay
\nSchools are going on pandemic hiring sprees and overstaffing may be the new problem<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

The stories are scary. The teaching profession, according to CNN in early 2022, was \u201cin crisis.\u201d The Wall Street Journal reported in February 2022 that burned out teachers were exiting for jobs in the private sector. House lawmakers in Washington devoted an entire hearing to \u201cTackling Teacher Shortages\u201d in May 2022. And on Aug. 3, 2022, the Washington Post printed this headline: \u201c\u2018Never seen it this bad\u2019: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttrition is definitely up, but it\u2019s not a mass exodus of teachers,\u201d said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization.<\/p>\n

Are teachers leaving the classroom en masse?<\/strong><\/a> — from vox.com by Fabiola Cineas<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nThe chaotic debate over this year\u2019s teacher shortages, explained.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

In Texas, teachers are\u00a0deserting the classroom\u00a0at high rates, with Houston alone reporting\u00a0nearly 1,000 vacancies\u00a0in early August. In Maryland, more than\u00a05,500 teachers\u00a0reportedly left the profession in 2022, leaving Baltimore with an estimated\u00a0600 to 700 vacancies\u00a0going into the fall.<\/p>\n

Department of Education officials in Pennsylvania are calling that state\u2019s shortage a \u201ccrisis,\u201d and experts there say the state will need \u201cthousands\u201d of new teachers by 2025.<\/p>\n

Kansas is facing what has been called\u00a0the most severe teacher shortage\u00a0it has ever had: about 1,400 teaching jobs are unfilled. In Florida, there are about\u00a08,000 teacher vacancies, up from 5,000 at the start of school last year. The shortage is reportedly also dire in other states, including\u00a0Nevada,\u00a0California,\u00a0Illinois,\u00a0Arizona, and\u00a0Missouri. Some experts say that even school districts that don\u2019t usually face shortages are struggling with vacancies, and it\u2019s hard to hire teachers even for subjects that are typically easy to fill.<\/p>\n

But is it actually happening? The\u00a0US does not collect timely, detailed national data about teacher employment, so it\u2019s difficult to definitively conclude whether there is a national teacher shortage going into the 2022-23 school year. That has led to\u00a0practitioners,\u00a0education policy experts, and\u00a0union leaders talking past one another.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Three Ways to Prepare for and Successfully Land a Student Internship<\/strong><\/a> — from emergingedtech.com by Amy DiBello<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

So how does one overcome those feelings in order to get the position and prepare for their future?\u00a0 By taking the knowledge they\u2019ve gained in their coursework along with a strong work ethic, great attitude and finally, displaying a very intentional desire to serve in order to be an asset to the organization. Interns who display these traits and show their commitment to carrying out an organization\u2019s overall mission will no doubt prove to be an invaluable asset and find success in their first internship role. Following are three practical steps that will ensure you are fully prepared to find, secure and succeed in your first internship.<\/p>\n

Burned-out employees are ‘quiet quitting’ their jobs: What to know about the trend<\/strong> <\/a>— from goodmorningamerica.com<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

With the pandemic blurring the lines between work and home, people like West are using quiet quitting as a way to set more boundaries between their professional and personal lives.<\/p>\n

The new form of “quitting” sees people keeping their jobs, but mentally stepping back from the burdens of work — for example, working the bare minimum number of hours and not making their jobs an important center of their lives.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nWhile I’m not advocating “quiet quitting” at all, it does relay an element of what’s happening in the workplace, at least in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teacher shortage? Here’s one way around it<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>— from edcircuit.com by\u00a0EdCircuit Staff<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

After seeing the teacher shortage first hand in China, Jessie Sullivan and Isla Iago launched an innovative new start-up that teaches children how to read and write through YouTube \u2013 without the need for adult expertise or attention. Since the release in July, the start-up called\u00a0See Say Write<\/a>\u00a0is already being used by schools, homes, and children\u2019s charities in seven\u00a0different\u00a0countries.<\/p>\n

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Addendum on 8\/22\/22:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Workforce: Evolve or Become Extinct<\/strong><\/a> — from educause.edu<\/p>\n

\"Workforce:<\/a><\/p>\n

Addendums on 8\/23\/22:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lacking Bus Drivers, Schools Make Tough Calls on Transportation<\/strong><\/a> — from edweek.org by Evie Blad<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Eighty-six percent of respondents to a nationally representative survey of school and district administrators conducted by the EdWeek Research Center in July said they don\u2019t have enough candidates to fill open bus driver positions.<\/p>\n

Teacher Pay Penalty Reaches Record High. What\u2019s at Stake?<\/strong> <\/a>— from edsurge.com by Emily Tate Sullivan<\/p>\n

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

For decades\u2014indeed, almost every year since the EPI first began documenting the teacher pay penalty in 1996\u2014the pay of teachers has slipped further behind that of their non-teacher counterparts, adjusted for education, experience and demographics.
\n…
\nTeachers in the U.S. earn about 76.5 cents on the dollar compared to similar professionals who have bachelor\u2019s degrees, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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