CSU and CA community colleges aim to tackle teacher shortage with 'PAVE Toolkit'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- California assemblage colleges and the California State University strategy are trying to tackle the teacher shortage.

In California past year, determination were 10,000 teacher vacancies crossed the state, according to the California Teachers Association.

Because of that, California Community Colleges collaborated with the California State University strategy to make the "Pathways for Advancing Visionary Educators" oregon "PAVE" Toolkit.

"The extremity of the PAVE Toolkit is to guarantee that students acquisition a clear, supported travel from California assemblage colleges to the authorities to CSU," California Community College Chancellor's Office Dean of Workforce & Economic Development Chèri Fortin said.

Dozens of institutions and individuals passim the authorities worked to make the escaped guide.

That includes Chèri Fortin and Hilary Seitz.

Through their work, they identified six recurring themes that consistently enactment pupil and pedagogue success...

• collaboration
• equity and access
• transfer pathways
• addressing teacher shortages
• data-informed decision-making
• student supports

"So we looked astatine each of those themes, like, what does this look like? What is it? What would it look similar successful partnership? We truly looked passim what we already were doing," Director of Educator & Leadership Programs successful the California State University Chancellor's Office, Hilary Seitz said.

Each taxable was highlighted with real-life examples, specified arsenic a two-day gathering held betwixt Fresno State and Cal State Long Beach.

The universities invited California Community College partners arsenic they discussed their respective Liberal Studies and Education programs.

The effect was a collaborative effort to guarantee pupil success.

"The PAVE Toolkit is astir creating the conditions for students to enactment beardown connected their enactment connected track, their pathway, and yet conscionable the workforce demands and needs of California Schools and communities," Fortin said.

The PAVE Toolkit besides includes reports and resources, arsenic good arsenic checklists and tools that tin beryllium utilized for casual implementation.

For those who worked connected the toolkit, they judge this is conscionable the opening of improving outcomes for aspiring teachers statewide.

"We privation to turn beardown teachers. We are producing much teachers than anyone other successful our authorities close now, and we privation to bash more. We cognize we request to bash more, and we tin bash much so, that's our anticipation -- is that it takes connected a beingness of its ain and we make these truly heavy partnerships, and we tin bash immoderate much large enactment together," Seitz said.

The creators accidental this toolkit is not a tell-all but alternatively a usher to spark caller ideas.

In the upcoming world year, they volition beryllium looking astatine the interaction of the toolkit astatine antithetic institutions, successful hopes of showing its effectiveness.

You tin find the toolkit and much accusation by clicking here.

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