NACCTEP Now

In this episode we hear from Tonja Eagan, the CEO of Kappa Delta Pi, on what the KDP organization provides to teacher candidates, new teachers, and veteran teachers. We learn the origins of this national honor society in 1911 as a place to honor and celebrate all high-achieving teacher candidates, including women and teachers of color who were dismissed by a prominent educational honor society of that time. Ms. Eagan also discusses the latest partnerships and initiatives of KDP including members having full access to the Teaching Channel resources; a virtual half-day Annual New Teacher National Summit; and a quality-of-life initiative, The Rooted Teacher by KDP. The Rooted Teacher includes monthly podcasts, virtual coaching and support sessions, and weekly microlearning videos.

Additionally, KDP will be hosting a 2-day in-person conference in St. Louis - Convo: The Premier Conference for Future Educators. They are anticipating over 700 participants at this event to learn about innovative techniques and ideas for teaching. More information on this event can be found on their website at https://www.kdp.org/events/convo2023.

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include;

Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question, Based on your experiences, what do you see for the next 20 years of NACCTEP?

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include;

Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following Lightening Round Question, If you could make a wish and change any one thing about community college or teacher education at large, what would it be and why?

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include;

Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question, During your time at NACCTEP, what was your biggest accomplishment?

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include;

Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question When you first started with NACCTEP, what was the biggest “thing” going on in community college teacher education?

Welcome to our special episode of NACCTEP Now, Reflecting on the Legacy of Community College Teacher Education Programs Over the Past 20 Years! Our panelists today include;

Listen to NACCTEP's previous Executive Directors and President answer the following question During your time in NACCTEP, what do you think was the biggest challenge community teacher education faced?

Megan Kaplinsky, department head of Reading and Teacher Preparation at Long Beach City College as well as current President of ACCCTEP, Association of California Community Colleges Teacher Education Programs, discusses the programs available both at her college and throughout the California Community Colleges. She shares how the California Colleges banded together during the pandemic to create alternative fieldwork options for students in their programs. Born out of that same collaboration are ongoing workshops, online conferences, and regional meetings that address critical issues in teacher preparation.

Megan also shares how her school is addressing the diversity, equity, and inclusion issues ongoing throughout the classrooms of California and across the nation. They are focusing on utilizing an ethnic studies lens having created a teacher education course specifically on ethnic studies. To learn more about this lens she recommends Rethinking Ethnic Studies by R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, and Wayne Au as well as Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research by Christine Sleeter and Miguel Zavala.

If you would like to learn more about ACCCTEP you can visit their website at accctep.org or reach out to her directly at [email protected].

Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner is an associate professor at Louisiana State University with a special interest in teacher mental health in the early childhood education and care arena. Her work with future and current teachers features in her many journal articles. In this episode we learn tips on coping mechanisms and strategies including making time for deep thinking and setting boundaries. Dr. Baumgartner references the work of Fred Rogers as well as Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach in addition to Brad Montague's Becoming Better Grownups.

Meet Danielle Savory-Seggerson of Lansing Community College as she discusses the challenges of transitioning from in-person instruction to online synchronous and asynchronous instruction. She shares the tips and tricks of how she ensures she is able to offer inclusive interactions with students in all of these settings and how she personalizes how she interacts with her students.

The books that she feels have most helped her in offering inclusive instruction include Tracie Addy's What Inclusive Teachers Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching and Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equality in the College Classroom by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy. She has also adapted a student information Google form that Michelle Pacansky-Brock has on her website brocansky.com. In addition to these valuable resources, Danielle also recommends James Lang's Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning sharing that small changes can lead to bigger results.

In this episode we talk with Dr. Ingrid Anderson, Program Coordinator for the Infant/Toddler Mental Health graduate certificate and Co-Coordinator for the Masters of Early Childhood Inclusive Education. Dr. Anderson is the co-author with Jean Barbre of Supporting Children's Mental Health and Well-Being: A Strength-Based Perspective as well as Caring for Self: A Workbook for Early Childhood Educator Well-Being coming in early 2024. She discusses the importance of recognizing, respecting and caring for the mental health of young children, but also of recognizing, respecting, and caring for the mental health of the teachers. Care of self, different from self-care, is critical for teachers in order to be able to positively impact the mental health of the students.