EDUCATOR GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT
HIGHLIGHTING SUCCESS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY
CREEED invests in promising programs and organizations that share our goal of increasing educational attainment through strategic grants. By partnering with local public, private, and charter school systems, as well as organizations aimed to increase student achievement, these bold and innovative initiatives have proven to be successful in preparing students for college and career.
We've highlighted some of our partners below. Learn more about the impact these programs are making across the region
We've highlighted some of our partners below. Learn more about the impact these programs are making across the region
UTEP MINER TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
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As the new Dean of the College of Education at UTEP, I joined with CREEED’s Choose to Excel Director Amy O'Rourke, and Stephanie Otero from the El Paso Community Foundation (EPCF) in 2018 to co-chair a task force that looked at El Paso’s teacher pipeline; with specific focus on how the region recruits, trains, and retains quality teachers - an essential prerequisite if we want our schools to produce high-performing students. Operating through the El Paso Collaborative for Academic Excellence, the task force discovered that students graduating from the College of Education were often not as well prepared for their first day of teaching as they could be, partly because they had not received the level of in-classroom and hands-on experience they need to be successful. |
In collaboration with US Prep, CREEED, and EPCF, UTEP established the Miner Teacher Residency Program, a year-long immersive teacher preparation program that places student teachers in classrooms for a full school year, and matches them with teacher-mentors and UTEP learning coaches to help develop and practice their skills in classroom management, learning performance and lesson planning.
With funding support from CREEED, EPCF, and Workforce Solutions Borderplex, the UTEP Miner Teacher Residency Program kicked off in the 2019-2020 school year with 19 residents in partnership with El Paso ISD and Socorro ISD. The residency expanded to 60 students in the 2020-2021 school year thanks to a generous grant from the Prentice Farrar Brown & Alline Ford Brown Foundation, and renewed partnerships with El Paso, Socorro and Ysleta ISDs.
And the program is already having an impact in producing new teachers that enter the classroom ready on day 1 to teach. Based on evaluations from principals and mentor teachers, the majority of residents that enter the classroom are performing above average on various indicators for new teachers.
The goal is to scale the Miner Residency Program so that all students going through the College of Education are able to go through this immersive program and so that all school districts in the region have high-quality teachers in their classrooms. .
“It is easy to simply assume that first-year teachers will improve over the first few years of their careers, but those third-grade students, for example, will only take third grade once. It is vital that our graduates are prepared for the classroom on ‘Day One’. Thanks to the leadership of CREEED and EPCF, the Miner Teacher Residency Program is not only preparing the next generation of teachers in El Paso, but it is also becoming the model that other communities across the state look to replicate.”
-Clifton Tanabe, Ed.D., Dean of the College of Education, The University of Texas at El Paso
With funding support from CREEED, EPCF, and Workforce Solutions Borderplex, the UTEP Miner Teacher Residency Program kicked off in the 2019-2020 school year with 19 residents in partnership with El Paso ISD and Socorro ISD. The residency expanded to 60 students in the 2020-2021 school year thanks to a generous grant from the Prentice Farrar Brown & Alline Ford Brown Foundation, and renewed partnerships with El Paso, Socorro and Ysleta ISDs.
And the program is already having an impact in producing new teachers that enter the classroom ready on day 1 to teach. Based on evaluations from principals and mentor teachers, the majority of residents that enter the classroom are performing above average on various indicators for new teachers.
The goal is to scale the Miner Residency Program so that all students going through the College of Education are able to go through this immersive program and so that all school districts in the region have high-quality teachers in their classrooms. .
“It is easy to simply assume that first-year teachers will improve over the first few years of their careers, but those third-grade students, for example, will only take third grade once. It is vital that our graduates are prepared for the classroom on ‘Day One’. Thanks to the leadership of CREEED and EPCF, the Miner Teacher Residency Program is not only preparing the next generation of teachers in El Paso, but it is also becoming the model that other communities across the state look to replicate.”
-Clifton Tanabe, Ed.D., Dean of the College of Education, The University of Texas at El Paso