The Georgia Department of Education has been awarded more than $10 million in federal grants to expand teacher apprenticeships statewide, in partnership with the University of West Georgia (UWG) and the National Center for Grow Your Own. The investment will strengthen efforts to recruit and prepare future educators through the Department’s Teach in the Peach initiative. The grants build on Georgia’s existing teacher apprenticeship work, which launched through GaDOE’s Office of Rural Education and Innovation and was supported by a $3.9 million Apprenticeship Building America Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The program allows aspiring educators to earn a salary while completing coursework and gaining the classroom experience needed to become certified teachers; it has supported 195 teaching apprentices over the past two years. This latest funding includes a $5.98 million Teacher Quality Partnership grant to expand paraprofessional-to-teacher apprenticeships and strengthen teacher preparation, mentoring, and support for new educators. A second grant of approximately $4.3 million will expand registered apprenticeship opportunities for aspiring special education teachers. The National Center for Grow Your Own will provide technical assistance and expertise in implementing registered teacher apprenticeships, supporting the development of a sustainable model that allows school districts to prepare future teachers from within their own communities. The expansion is part of…
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