Wes Edwards

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership @UNTsocial | Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy from @UTAustin

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

New Pub 🚨
Marketing the Profession: Educational Leaders’ Perspectives on the Implementation of High School Grow-Your-Own Teacher Programs https://t.co/lS9LcTdwh5
@ADMiller @KafarraBurden
Eprint link takes you past the paywall for first 50 downloads: https://t.co/VhaeZfPgYX

[Educational Review @EdReview]

🚨 #NewIssue Alert! 🚨

The December issue of Educational Review is out now! Featuring articles, reviews, Influential Readers and book reviews on innovative teaching, leadership, digital literacies, and equity in diverse education contexts! 🤩

https://t.co/nCv9IrFpZC

[David DeMatthews @DrDeMatt]

Attention Grad Students: Please join us for a 1-hour virtual session on writing op-eds where we will discuss academic freedom & how to communicate your research expertise w/ broader audiences. @Division_L @AERA_EdResearch @DivA_EdLead @ucea @JacksonScholars @utexascoe @EdWriters @AnnenbergInst @DianeRavitch

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

Check out some our recent work on localized school leader pipelines in Texas -- more to come! Shout out to Alexis and Kafarra, amazing doc student researchers! @UNTResearch @UNT_TEA

[Sheneka Williams @VandyGrad07]

@Division_L, we did it again! The program planning team worked really hard to develop this year’s conference program! See you in Denver!
Thank you for hosting us @GeorgiaStateU!

[Lauren Schudde @LaurenSchudde]

My book w #HuriyaJabbar, drawn from 6-year data from the Texas Transfer Project (funded by @GreaterTxFound), is finally coming out! We describe the organization & challenges of #communitycollege transfer: https://t.co/wYOGl0Cr8E

[J. Jacob Kirksey @jjacobkirksey]

Excited to share the 1st statewide look at uncertified teachers in TX and how they impact student achievement. #1 takeaway: 1/2 of new, first-time teachers are uncertified, & they are linked to declines in achievement. Link: https://t.co/IRNr2brHLJ

More highlights below: 1/x

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

We want to thank the grants team at @GiveWisely for supporting this work and the editors/reviewers involved in the publication process.

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

The North Texas Teacher Pathways research team has been busy over the last few months and I am excited to share results here from a newly published paper with co-authors @jjacobkirksey @KafarraBurden @ADMiller!
https://t.co/Mi960Hk91N

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

Results from this paper provide new evidence supporting national policy efforts to support Grow Your Own teacher pathways, and in the paper, we discuss important variation across urban, suburban, rural, and town contexts. We also explore different definitions of ‘hometown’ tchrs

[Dan Goldhaber @CEDR_US]

Later cohorts of emergency licensed teachers were less effective (in terms of their impacts on students). It's a bit of a mystery as to why this is so, but shows the importance of not jumping the gun in reaching strong conclusions about licensure policy.

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[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

Thank you! I’m lucky to have students as dedicated and hard working as you are—keep it up!

[Dr James Shea @englishspecial]

Beware the monetising and privatisation of teacher education. Or are we too late?

"…our results demonstrate meaningful variation in the demographic characteristics and retention outcomes of for-profit prepared novice teachers"

https://t.co/WDGQyIgldm

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

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[Danielle Sanderson Edwards @drdsedwards]

3. GYO initiatives target a variety of populations for participation.

HS students are the most prevalent target of GYO programs 6/11

[Wes Edwards @wledpolicy]

Awesome work here; so glad I got to see it presented last week!

[Andy Kwok @chiwawakwok]

Another @AnnenbergInst Working Paper, this time with @edu_tuan

We examine @NCTResidencies to identify variation in teacher residency programs, participant beliefs, and if there are any associations between the two.

Check it out here: https://t.co/5L7G682S7V

[Courtney Hart @celisehart]

Great information shared at the 2nd annual Expanding North Texas Teacher Pathways event.

We have an in-house expert here in @LewisvilleISD - the brilliant Alexis Miller is working on doctoral research in this area and was a planner and presenter at the event! 🤩