Stackable Credentials for Teacher Advancement (79168)
Session Chair: Yi Huang
Saturday, 15 June 2024 15:35
Session: Session 4
Room: Salle 103
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The Center for Inclusive Excellence (CIE) at Coppin State University aims to simultaneously improve the quality and value of education while increasing access and success through credential innovations. The presentation will spotlight CIE’s new stackable credentials that are uniquely engineered as model “career ladders” to improve teacher effectiveness, increase teacher retention, and accelerate teacher leadership development in high-need rural and urban communities across Maryland, USA. The stackable credentials include fours Post-Baccalaureate Certificates (PBC) and the Master of Education in Teacher Leadership. The innovative stackable options provide teachers with both the short-term advantage of earning one or more PBCs and the longer-term option of earning an advanced master’s degree with salary incentives and national prestige (Huang, 2022).
Through strategic partnership and a large-scale award by the United States Department of Education, the stackable credentials were inaugurated in Fall 2023 at no cost to all program participants. The CIE Executive Director and Principal Investigator will provide background information on curriculum engineering, partnership development, innovative instructional delivery, and competency-based assessment. Key foci of the presentation will be placed on pilot results. The inaugural cohort included 22 practicing teachers from four high-need school districts. The results reflected high-levels of course completion (95%) and demonstrated competency mastery (95%) in Fall 2023, as well as high-degree of retention (90%) in Spring 2024. Promising practices on program effectiveness, operational efficiency, and funding structures will be discussed. Implications on scalability and sustainability will be explored to achieved the goals of increasing teacher effectiveness and retention in high-need communities.
Authors:
Yi Huang, Coppin State University, United States
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