Critical Issue #2: Personnel Preparation Program Partnerships that Meet Local Needs

The planning and ongoing implementation of personnel preparation program partnerships is an essential component of state and local-level policy and practice that supports the most effective practices to increase the quantity and quality of qualified personnel for high-need areas.

The Center offers the following resources for your state in developing and implementing personnel preparation program partnerships:

Issue brief
This six-page document outlines the issues and essential elements of personnel preparation program partnerships. Based on best practices from the research and program description literature, it is a resource for state staff interested in creating their own personnel preparation program partnerships among their SEA, LEAs and IHEs.

Webcast and Power Point Presentation
View the video presentation as Dr. Phoebe Gillespie, director of the Personnel Improvement Center, discusses the Center’s work, including best practices for states, local programs and institutions of higher education, related to preparation program partnerships.

Read more about the Center’s Personnel Preparation Program Partnerships.

Read the Center’s literature review on Preparation Program Partnerships.

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Posted January 6, 2010

If you are a district representative, what is the greatest benefit that you receive from working collaboratively with your local IHE? And if you are from a University, what is the greatest benefit that you receive from working with your local education agency? In both cases, please describe what your collaboration looks like.

Posted November 10, 2009

Since the passage of NCLB, special education teachers are held to the same requirement of being a highly-qualified teacher in one of the core academic subject areas, as are general education teachers. Most local districts are looking for a special education teacher that is either certified in elementary education AND special education or can pass the elementary academic content test in their state AND is certified in special education. If you are looking for a special education teacher position as a 'co-teacher' in a general education classroom, you would only need certification in special education.