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Wilson, Martin Stuart – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In this dissertation I seek to examine and expose the world of teaching, and particularly the world of teaching mathematics in public middle schools and high schools in New York City. These schools are administered by the New York City Department of Education which each year is responsible for the education of over one million students. In this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Urban Teaching, Public School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Sloan, Kay; Allen, Alison; Blazevski, Julie; Carson, Fatima; Rockman, Saul – New Visions for Public Schools, 2018
This report shares findings from three longitudinal studies of the Urban Teacher Residency (UTR) Project, a partnership between New Visions for Public Schools, Hunter College, and the New York City Department of Education. From 2009 to 2014, with funding from the US Department of Education's Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) Program, UTR placed…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Beginning Teachers
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Knight-Manuel, Michelle G.; Marciano, Joanne E.; Wilson, Michael; Jackson, Iesha; Vernikoff, Laura; Zuckerman, Kelly Gavin; Watson, Vaughn W. M. – Urban Education, 2019
This article examines how 18 teachers, counselors, administrators, and support staff from seven New York City public high schools collaborated during the Black and Latino Male Professional Development Initiative (a pseudonym) to develop a "culturally relevant, schoolwide, college-going culture" supportive of Black and Latino males'…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Teaching, Culturally Relevant Education, Public Schools
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Kuranishi, Adam; Oyler, Celia – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2017
In this article, co-written by a teacher and a professor, the authors examine possible explanations for why Adam (first author), a New York City public school special educator, failed the edTPA, a teacher performance assessment required by all candidates for state certification. Adam completed a yearlong teaching residency where he was the special…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Special Education Teachers, Public School Teachers, Inclusion
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Greene, Kiersten – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
K-12 teachers who write about their daily work on blogs and other social media platforms share local knowledge and wisdom from the immediate view of the classroom. These first-hand retellings of everyday classroom life offer a unique critique of educational policy from the teachers' perspective. Reporting on the analysis of 14 public-facing blogs…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Urban Teaching, Electronic Journals, Social Media