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Learn Magazine: Fall 2021, Issue 3

Cover story photo: A teacher helping a student in classroom.

Cover Story | The Evolution of Teacher Preparation

Teacher Education Reinvented

Developing a transformational approach, building on tradition.

As understanding of, awareness about, and experience with GSE’s Teacher Residency Program has grown, so has interest in and demand for it—and subsequently, its impact. The program and its approach to teacher training is now in its third year in partnership with the Buffalo Public Schools.

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Hutch Tech: A teaching incubator
11/15/21
After two years of hosting GSE’s teacher residents, the leaders of Buffalo’s Hutchinson Central Technical High School began this year with three new residents teaching biology and French.
Legal advocate and Marine find new careers in the classroom
11/15/21
Gary Crump listened, with deep discouragement, to a judge give a sentence that put three young Black and Hispanic men in prison for life for crimes that could have been prevented with education. In that moment, he decided his time would be better spent working with young men in a classroom than as a legal advocate. He remembers thinking, “There’s got to be a way I can have an impact on young men of color.”
Sharing a new approach: A template for other institutions
11/15/21
After two years of work in Buffalo Public Schools, the GSE Teacher Residency Program team of faculty, PhD students and educator collaborators developed a program template to share with other graduate schools.
Leadership pilot takes off
11/15/21
After its launch last year as a GSE pilot project, the Buffalo Aspiring Leadership Academy, or BALA, continues this year with nine candidates working with principal-mentors in nine Buffalo Public Schools. Design elements are similar to the Teacher Residency Program: Members of this year’s class work in schools and do GSE coursework that completes the requirements of the New York State School Building Certificate, a qualification for any school leadership position in the state.
Intensity pays off: The residency year packs in experience and learning
12/22/21
Being a teacher resident during the pandemic, with its upending shift from teaching in a classroom to virtual lessons, fortified Tara Strade, BA ’19, MS ’20—as a graduate student and as a teacher in training. She had no choice but to find ways to balance her studies and lead second grade classes alongside her mentor teacher.
A historic community school turns around and embraces the residency approach
6/8/21
As Tanika Shedrick, MA ’06, begins her fourth year as principal of BUILD Community School, the school’s partnership with GSE and its Teacher Residency Program has helped turn the historic Black school into a learning lab. Shedrick, a member of the program’s steering committee, can see how the five residents placed at BUILD during the program’s first two years have contributed to a dynamic environment for everyone—administrators, teachers and students. This year, the school is hosting five residents at once.
Putting the old pieces together in a new way
11/15/21
Bobbie Finocchio’s first teaching experience launched her career as an advocate for change and, three years ago, led to a job as one of the leaders of UB’s three-year-old Teacher Residency Program: As she began to work as a teacher educator associate and help lead this new program in Buffalo Public Schools, she was motivated by her own experience as a new teacher at 21.

From the Dean

A letter from Dean Rosenblith

New Partnership

Olivia Holmwood, Claire Cameron, and Krystal Starke gather at GiGi's Playhouse.

GSE students teach children with Down syndrome at Gigi's Playhouse

Hands-On Experience

Doctoral student Adetola Salau is reimagining STEM in Nigeria and beyond

Virtual Skills

Illustration of a student at a desk learning from a teacher online.

Alumna discovers online tools lead to leaps in class participation

Office Hours

Meet Professor Myles Faith

Roaming the Halls

Kathleen Reeb-Reascos: Seeking policy change in disability education

Trajectory

Alum Rob Martin wants educators to know about a global career path

Q&A

Image of a young girl staring at a cell phone.

Understanding and preventing cyberbullying with Stephanie Frederick

Book Stacks

Stack of books published by GSE faculty.

Titles by GSE authors

A Teacher Who

Otsuki stands in front of the Dogo Onsen hot spring, Matsuyama, Japan, June 15, 2018.

Inspiration and ambition lead to a move from Japan to the US

On the Map

GSE research highlights around the world

GSE in the News

News headlines featuring GSE faculty and students

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Scene on Social

GSE student Instagram takeovers

Ed Artifact

"Well, there goes math." Calculating change

New Beginnings

Images from the 2021 spring commencement ceremony

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Fall 2021 • Issue 3

Editorial & Creative Director
Amber Winters

Senior Editor
Michelle Kearns

Web Design & Production
William J. Belz III

Graphic Design
Ellen Stay

Contributing Writers
Danielle LeGare
Lauren Newkirk Maynard
Marcene Robinson

Contributing Photographers
William Belz, UB GSE
Dylan Buyskes, Onion Studio, Inc.
Meredith Forrest Kulwicki, UB
Douglas Levere, UB
Amber Winters, UB GSE

Copy Editor & Proofreader
Danielle LeGare
Arthur Page

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Cover Story

The evolution of teacher preparation