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Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District
A first-ever Teacher Induction Program led by Santa Barbara Unified School District launched this week with 85 preliminary credentialed teachers. The district-led program provides new educators with an individualized, job-imbedded system of mentoring, support, and professional learning in the beginning of the teacher’s first two years of teaching.
Santa Barbara Unified School District began to pursue its own induction program in the Fall of 2016. The District received approval from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing on May 10, 2018 after completing a multi-step approval process and demonstrating compliance with rigorous new induction program standards.
“We are incredibly proud to be able to launch our own induction program as a way to authentically support and invest in new educators within our district,” said Roxanna Stern, Teacher Induction Program Coordinator. “By providing this induction program we are integrating district professional learning opportunities with individualized support and mentoring from veteran educators.”
“There is nothing more important in education than the teaching and learning that happens in the classroom,” said John Becchio, EdD, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. “The Teacher Induction Program is an impressive advancement for our district as it allows us to provide on-the-job continuing education and development opportunities that will have a positive impact on student learning.”
The Teacher Induction Program is a two-year program for newly credentialed teachers in California to earn their professional teaching credential. The program is offered free of charge to educators and each participant attends after-school workshops, develops individual learning plans based on California standards for the teaching profession, and receives at least one hour per week of coordinated support and mentoring. Santa Barbara Unified School District teachers previously had to earn their professional teaching credential by participating in continuing education opportunities outside of the district. Participants complete the program by demonstrating that they meet the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing requirements by possessing the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively educate and support all students in meeting state adopted academic standards.
I would love it if these teachers would simply teach and support their students, and leave their politics and social activism at home. Teach…don’the preach. God bless you Mr. Ervin Birzer….we need more teachers like you.
Yes, those new teachers are smiling now. Give them a couple years. A good pal of mine teaches at a local elementary school and told me the parents of the kids are completely insufferable. There are a lot of kids now who won’t do the work, act out, back talk, the whole gamut. No respect, utterly devoid of manners. My teacher friend said, “And every parent thinks his/her kid is perfect, no matter what’s going on.”
Welcome and we hope you keep loving your job. Nothing comes across to a student better than knowing a teacher loves what he/she is doing, as well as absolutely loving the subject he/she is teaching. Those are the teachers we remember. Those are the subjects we remember.
Hate to spoil your opinions with facts, but for a 4-yr degree plus an additional year to get a preliminary credential, the pay is pretty low. “The median annual Teacher Elementary School salary in Santa Barbara, CA is $61,635, as of July 31, 2018, with a range usually between $50,488–$73,104.” Not even enough to rent a one-bdr apt in SB. Hope they all have spouses making good money in the Tech industry.
@Pitmix: Here is a brief assignement. Please share the total number of hours per year that teachers work per their contract. For educators, this is a well known number. It is also much less hours than the standard 2080 hours per year that most “professionals” work. Then divide the total average teacher’s salary by the total hours they work per year. This will give the hourly wage paid to teachers. And please don’t tell us about the hours worked over this amount in order to “to prepare” which is “unpaid” …all professionals do them same. For those interested, Transparent California lists exactly how much your kid’s teacher made in past years. And FYI, there are many local teachers making a base salary well above the $73k you list above. Anecdotally, I would estimate any local teacher with more than 15 years experience is making a base salary above $70k per year.
…and upon retirement Cali teachers receive 105% of their final earnings each year for the rest of their lives…plus medical…plus dental…plus a host of other perks…retire from teaching in your mid 50s, get another job and you are raking it in…what a racket…and our students cannot read, write, or compete n the job market. The solution: more money for the teachers and administrators. oh, and do not forget to vote how you are told to vote.
“Transparent California” is just one of the many names used by the tax-exempt “free-market think tank” Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI). NPRI refuses to provide its own funding sources, stating, “NPRI respects the privacy of our donors, which includes the amount of a donor’s gift”.
NPRI’s primary funding source, as determined by The Conservative Transparency Project, is Donors Capital Fund, a dark-money source of funding for conservative groups. Its donors also include The Cato Institute, co-founded by the Koch brothers, and organizations affiliated with the climate change denial movement.
NPRI spends 75% of its revenue on six-figure salaries and benefits. Its goal is to undermine support for employee unions nationwide, thereby decreasing salaries and increasing corporate profits.
I looked up my kid’s second grade GUSD teacher from last year. Goleta is a small town and we cross paths socially on occasion. She is a a very nice woman in her mid-40s, born and raised in Goleta, who has been a teacher for approx 20 years. Her husband is not a tech worker, he is a blue collar tradesman. They are home owners of a nice middle class home in Goleta hear the school. Per Transparent California, in 2015 she made a base salary of $94,769.00. Benefits were in addition to this amount. I can only presume that with a modest raise she will make over $100k base salary in 2018 . I am happy for them and their success. And if they can do it, anyone can. But come on people, she is not overworked, under appreciated, or underpaid.
Corporate profits? Dude, Transparent California only reports on public employees. Those folks work for you and me and you’re darned-right we want to know where our taxes are going.
YOU are SO WRONG… They are not on a PUBLIC SAFETY CalPers Retirement- and of those that are, very FEW receive “lifetime medical”…! Every jurisdiction negotiates their contracts differently.
Your blanket statements and mis-information is ridiculous at best. Please show me where my wife (teacher) will be receiving a “105%” of her salary and lifetime medical… LOL!
I WISH!!!
Ditto @Coastwatch. I can confirm that GUSD teachers have crappy and very expensive health insurance (subsidies are very low compared to most private sector plans). They also do not get any health insurance coverage after retirement…most transition to Medicare at age 65.
Waiting for the inevitable hijacking of the thread to discuss the unreal bennies that fire and police receive…those dudes get insane benefits under CalPers.
…..dark….money….
Thank you! I never even thought to research them.
A deep look: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215462/dark-money-by-jane-mayer/9780307947901/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/books/review/dark-money-by-jane-mayer.html
@SB Dude, You’re just plain wrong. I looked up several teachers my kids have had and they made much more than the $93k you state for a base salary. Figure the rest of your post is incorrect as well.
I have a ton of respect for great educators, and many family members chose this career. But please stop with the well worn winging: you are not, by a long shot, “the most overworked, underpaid, and unappreciated professionals”.
Teachers unions constantly complaining about this very well-paid, well-benefited 9 month career choice makes this entire profession sound very unappealing. They need to stop downgrading this profession in the interests of all concerned.
The problem is that if you remove all analysis from history and government and poltical science classes, then you have removed any value from those classes. But one person’s analysis is another person’s bias.
5024, minimum is 8 hours a day. Max seems to be whatever it takes to be a good teacher. Grading, preparing instruction plans, after school activities, pre-school activities. It doesn’t really matter that their contracted per hour pay amount seems pretty high. That total salary is not enough to live in a nice place in SB, let alone buy a house.