Teacher ‘Residencies’ Examined

“Creating and Sustaining Urban Teacher Residencies: A New Way to Recruit, Prepare, and Retain Effective Teachers in High-Needs Districts”

Evidence suggests that urban teacher “residency” programs are attracting talented and diverse recruits to high-needs schools and helping keep them in those schools, a new report says.

In urban-teacher residencies, rigorously selected aspiring teachers integrate their master’s level schoolwork with a full year of classroom teaching alongside an experienced mentor. In the second year, they become teachers in their own classrooms...