弗吉尼亚州：乡郊教育联盟获410万美元联邦拨款，为四个乡郊学区招募并留住教师
位于美国弗吉尼亚州的非营利组织「乡郊潮水教育联盟」（Rural Tidewater Education Consortium，简称TEC）10月28日宣布，获得美国教育部410万美元「教师质量伙伴关系」（Teacher Quality Partnership）联邦拨款，在未来五年为四个乡郊学区招募并留住教师。
受惠的四个乡郊学区为富兰克林市公立学校、怀特岛县学校、萨里县公立学校与萨塞克斯县公立学校。新项目名为「潮水地区教育工作者队伍与领导力」（Tidewater Educator Workforce and Leadership）。
合作院校包括诺福克州立大学、老自治领大学、弗吉尼亚州立大学与保罗·D·坎普社区学院。项目设三条线：其一，招募：鼓励在校学生考虑教育职业，并协助辅助教师与转行者考取教师执照；其二，留任：通过弗吉尼亚州立大学的管理人员认证项目，为有意担任校长与行政职务的教师开辟领导力通道；其三，为现任管理人员开设高级领导力证书课程，内容涵盖阅读科学、负责任地使用技术与学校改进。
据联盟介绍，本轮全国约200个机构申请，只有12个项目获批。TEC执行主任帕梅拉·谢特利（Pamela Shetley）称这笔拨款对乡郊学区意义重大；萨里县学区总监赫伯特·门罗（Herbert Monroe）与怀特岛县学区总监克里斯托弗·科尔曼（Christopher Coleman）亦对项目表示欢迎。
Rural Virginia Education Consortium Wins $4.1 Million Federal Grant to Recruit and Retain Teachers Across Four Rural School Divisions
The Rural Tidewater Education Consortium (TEC), a nonprofit based in Virginia, announced on October 28 that it has received a $4.1 million federal Teacher Quality Partnership grant from the U.S. Department of Education to recruit and retain teachers over five years in four rural school divisions.
The four divisions are Franklin City Public Schools, Isle of Wight County Schools, Surry County Public Schools and Sussex County Public Schools. The new initiative is called Tidewater Educator Workforce and Leadership.
Partners include Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University, Virginia State University and Paul D. Camp Community College. The work has three prongs: recruiting, by encouraging current students to consider teaching careers and helping paraprofessionals and second-career seekers become licensed; retention through leadership pathways, including a Virginia State administrator certification program for aspiring principals and administrators; and an executive leadership certificate for current administrators covering the science of reading, responsible technology use and school improvement.
About 200 entities applied for the federal awards and only 12 were funded, according to the consortium. TEC Executive Director Pamela Shetley called the award 'quite monumental' for rural divisions, and Surry County Superintendent Herbert Monroe and Isle of Wight County Superintendent Christopher Coleman also welcomed the program.
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图片来源：美国乡郊砖砌校舍（资料图）。CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / A rural brick schoolhouse in the United States (file photo). CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
