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The Seattle Teacher Residency program is highlighted in the article. This program is a partnership between the UW College of Education, Seattle Public Schools, Alliance for Education and Seattle Education Association was established in 2012 to create a larger pipeline of diverse, highly qualified teachers serving the city's most poverty-impacted schools.

Marquita Prinzing, a 2010 graduate of UW's Teacher Education Program, tells a powerful story about leadership, bullying and why she teaches.

Anne Beitlers, associate teaching professor and director of the Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP), was quoted in an article published by The Post Journal about how the pandemic has prompted change in how future teachers are trained. Many U.S. educator preparation programs are incorporating more digital tools, online instruction and mental and emotional wellness in their courses to reflect takeaways from the pandemic. In particular, the prominence of technology will have benefits regardless of the pandemic's course and teaching programs are giving more emphasis on how to plan and implement quality virtual learning.

Jennifer McDermott of the UW Center for Educational Leadership offers advice for instructional coaches transitioning into their role.

Jennifer Lee Hoffman, associate professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy and faculty member at the Center for Leadership in Athletics, is featured in the podcast Higher Ed Advisor: A Baker Tilly Podcast in an episode titled “University of Washington propels its esports program through its mission, values and student gaming culture.” Jennifer discusses what institutions should keep top of mind as they plan to launch a robust esports program or enhance their current program. The podcast explores the opportunities esports offers students, importance of aligning esports programs with an institution’s mission and values and esports as a catalyst for collaboration, as well as connecting esports with novel ways of learning and the student of the future. Jennifer also emphasizes the unique role esports plays in creating novel ways of learning in higher education.

Noah Zeichner (MIT '04) discusses his Global Leadership class in a story about how Seattle's Chief Sealth International High School is helping students become global citizens.

Ryan Lafferty, 2016 Milken Educator, is a teacher co-designer with the University of Washington's Knowledge in Action project and works with College of Education faculty to create project-based physics courses.

Professor Margaret Plecki is quoted on the importance of raising beginning teacher salaries to recruit a wider pool of quality candidates.

Professor Virginia Berninger comments on her research exploring how cognitive process of reading may be connected to the motor process of forming letters.

Kristie Kaurez, director of the UW's National P-3 Center, discusses the urgency of rethinking the way primary education is organized in the United States during a panel discussion of early education experts.