What is Transition to Teaching (T2T)?
The Transition to Teaching (T2T) Program unites a public school district and a state supported university’s college of education to establish a recruitment, preparation, placement, induction, and retention model that will produce highly qualified licensed teachers for high-need academic areas in high-need schools. High-need schools are defined as schools located in an area in which 30% or more of the students come from families with incomes below the poverty line, or the school’s percentage of unlicensed teachers exceeds 11%. Approximately one-third of teachers employed in the public school district are provisionally/conditionally licensed with a high turnover rate each academic year. Additionally, many of the schools in the public school district are located in high poverty areas. In view of this evidence, the T2T Program was established to meet the needs of the school district while meeting the guidelines of NCLB. Transition to Teaching is a five-year funded project that will produce
