Ideas & News
Explore the latest updates on our programs, partnerships, and resources, and see how we’re creating better outcomes for students and harnessing the power of teaching to create a more just society.
TeachingWorks has been named a new partner in 100kin10, a national network to grow the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching force. As part of its commitment to the program, TeachingWorks will use the Elementary Mathematics Laboratory (EML), to provide innovative professional development to at least 250 elementary and secondary classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, […]
100kIn10, a national organization dedicated to improving STEM education across the country, has highlighted TeachingWorks in its latest report, Doing the Math, for our work to advance skillful elementary mathematics teaching that disrupts injustice in classrooms. Read the full report here.
TeachingWorks wishes you a wonderful school year! Check out some of these news items and resources that will help you gear up for this year! Read the September 2019 newsletter here.
TeachingWorks has officially launched the TeachingWorks Resource Library, a free, online collection of practice-based curriculum materials for teacher educators to use for preparing novice teachers. Led by TeachingWorks Director of Resource Development Adina Lopatin, the resource library builds on ongoing research and collaboration between TeachingWorks and teacher educators from across the country to develop more effective […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation has awarded TeachingWorks a grant to continue collaborative work begun in 2017 with faculty in California State University to further develop exemplary practices-based approaches in teacher education. Led by TeachingWorks director Deborah Loewenberg Ball and mathematics research specialist Amber Willis, methods course instructors from across the […]
We at TeachingWorks oppose the executive order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). We must stand up for the society we need to be — a society that affirms the rights of children of immigrants to belong here and to lead safe and fulfilling lives. The DACA program has made it possible […]
The S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation has awarded TeachingWorks a $250,000 grant to support the development of practice-based approaches in mathematics methods courses on five campuses in the California State University (CSU) system. Led by TeachingWorks director Deborah Loewenberg Ball and mathematics specialist Amber Willis, fellowship participants will work together to develop and implement course materials and […]
TeachingWorks, a national organization based at the University of Michigan School of Education dedicated to improving professional preparation for teaching, has received a $6.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a Teacher Preparation Transformation Center. The Teacher Preparation Transformation Center Initiative (TPTCI), developed by the Gates Foundation, is designed to […]
Stephen Sawchuck describes the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Teacher Preparation Transformation Initiative. Read more here.