PTE
The Partnership for Teacher Excellence (PTE) project is a $15,000,000 service grant between NYU, CUNY, and the NYC Department of Education funded by the Petrie Foundation. The overall goal of the project is to increase the number of teachers in hard-to-staff schools in NYC. The project aims to develop innovative designs for teacher education in New York City that locate more of the effort in schools themselves; that take advantage of new opportunities in the UFT contract to hire our graduates earlier and to support them through the often difficult first years of teaching; that offer incentives to NYU and CUNY students to learn to be teachers of mathematics, science, TESOL, and Special Education – all shortage areas in New York City; and that build on a continuous trajectory of teachers’ development that runs from college encounters with the subjects they will teach, through pre-service experiences as students of teaching, through earliest challenges, and on to mastery of the craft.
Currently, I serve as the Research Coordinator at NYU. My specific research goal is to identify developmental trajectories of urban school teachers from entry to two years post graduation using a longitudinal design. Once completed, it is anticipated that this project will be one of the major empirical undertakings in the country to better understand why certain teachers stay and succeed while others leave high-need urban schools.
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