RISE at The College of New Jersey will use school-university partnerships to recruit an annual cohort of 10 Residents of color who are recent graduates and nontraditional students into an 18-month residency program.
Building on long-standing partnerships with high-need urban school districts in the School of Education’s Professional Development School Network, RISE will implement an urban residency program that uses targeted recruitment, prepares highly qualified Residents through rigorous graduate coursework, provides multi-layered mentoring by faculty and practitioners of color, and retains teachers of color through a comprehensive job-embedded induction program that includes coaching and professional learning communities. To address systemic inequities and barriers for Residents of color, the program will provide financial assistance and academic support for state certification exams. Another aspect of the project is designed to expand the grow-your-own model beyond higher education to create a sustainable pipeline of students of color from Future Teacher Clubs in partnering high schools into urban teacher education programs.