The teacher residency model is the best way for college graduates to become a teacher, earn a teaching license, and prepare for an effective career.
TeacherResidency.info is the only list that helps you compare all the teacher residencies in the country, exploring your options by geography, financial benefits, program characteristics and more.
Here’s what great teacher preparation looks like.
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Full-Year Internship
30+ weeks in the classroom with an effective mentor teacher who demonstrates effective pedagogy and gradually releases teacher responsibilities to the teaching resident. Teacher residencies provide 2-3 times the experience of traditional student teaching.
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Coursework that Matters
Residents not only spend a full year in the classroom, they also take great coursework that prepares them for success and licensure.
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Real Coaching
An instructional coach is someone who cares about your success and your students’ learning. A coach from your residency program who ties together coursework and practice is another voice besides the mentor teacher helping you grow and develop.
Map of Listed Programs
The List
We invite you to explore this list of programs across the country. To explore, try sorting different columns or using the search box to search by state, city, or program characteristics like “equity-focused” or “public” or “charter”.
Programs that we have the most accurate information for are sorted to the top of the list. If you run a residency program that isn’t on the list and you want to get listed, please email residencies@teacherresidency.info. You can also email us if you want a link to the survey form to send us updated information.
| Name | Pub | Website | Year Started | Location | Training Yrs | Commit to Yrs | Characteristics |
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Additional Resources
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This site exists as a service to the teacher residency community and to all who aspire to teach. It was created by United InfoLytics, a data analytics and technology consulting and services group that is comprised of teachers-turned-data-professionals who have deep experience in the residency model. One of our products is a customizable app for tracking instructional coaching, resident growth, and progress toward standards. We also make custom recruiting dashboards. If you would benefit from a better system to track your work, we would love to talk.
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Teacher residencies are more that just a new model for teacher preparation. An effective teacher residency undertakes the costly but important work of coaching new teachers to effectiveness and sustainability. This site will be adding more data in the coming year to help identify programs which consistently implement the core aspects of the teacher residency model: training, coaching, mentoring, and ongoing support. Until we add this additional data, the most helpful marker of a program meeting these standards is the indication that a program is in the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) network as indicated in the “Characteristics” column.
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NCTR launched the Black Educator Initiative in September 2019 to recruit, develop, and retain new Black teachers through our national Network of teacher residency partners. This additional funding allows NCTR to invest in teacher residency programs that are improving diversity through new and innovative strategies. Resources on these efforts include:
NCTR’s Levers for Equitable Teacher Residencies
Doing Better for Black Educators
Recruitment and Retention of Black Educators: Promising Strategies at eight U.S. Teacher Residencies
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The National Center for Teacher Residencies is a great resource for anyone starting a new residency and offers consulting to help with this. When it comes to managing your training, instructional coaching, recruiting and effectiveness data, United InfoLytics (creator of this site) may be a helpful data and technology part.