Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency (LAUTR) and Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency-Transformative Initiative (LAUTR-TI)
Who We Are
Dr. A.Dee Williams P.I. |
T he Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency Program (LAUTR) was originally a collaborative partnership between the Charter College of Education, Center for Collaborative Education – Boston (CCE), Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and WestEd. This partnership was funded through a Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) grant from the United States Department of Education. The original purpose of the grant was to reconstruct teacher education by creating space for teacher candidates to formally (and more substantially) engage in classrooms. The model funds teacher candidates (or residents) to spend four days a week, full -time in classrooms co-teaching with an expert mentor teacher for a full school year. The original program has just completed its fifth year and is currently engaged in a no-cost extension as we finish serving the fifth and final cohort of Math and Science secondary teachers. On October 1, 2014, the collaborative partnership was awarded a new TQP grant for $11,064,077 to extend the program to new school districts and new credential programs. This new grant is entitled the Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency – Transformation Initiative (LAUTR-TI). The LAUTR-TI program has the fundamental purpose of transforming the ways in which credential recommendations are earned. While the initial grant focused exclusively on credentials issued in Secondary Math and Science, LAUTR-TI will expand its focus to include two new strands - (1) Educational Specialists (with a secondary education specialization), and (2) a Blended credential of Multiple Subjects (Elementary Education) and Educational Specialist (Special Education). Another new component of the LAUTR-TI is that each of the three strands will share a Master’s Degree specialization in the Integration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Integrated STEM). For the LAUTR-TI Grant, we are also excited to announce three additional school district partnerships. In addition to our ongoing collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District, we will be partnering with the Montebello Unified School District, Alhambra Unified School District, and Pasadena Unified School District to prepare the next generation of teachers. We have now recruited Cohort 6 residents who are divided into two strands; one Single Subject and the other Special Education who began classes June 22, 2015. Currently both strands maintain a Secondary STEM focus.
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LAUTR Digital Ambassador Activities
LAUTR Cohort 5 posing in Computer Lab |