根据… 报告 根据美国教育部国家教育统计中心2022年12月发布的数据，截至2022年10月，18%的公立学校至少有一个教师职位空缺，27%的公立学校有多个教师职位空缺。  

教师短缺和留校率的趋势引起了全国人民的关注，包括太阳城娱乐官网大学科尔尼分校的教职员工。 太阳城娱乐官网教师正在与科尔尼公立学校合作，正面解决这个问题。  

“We are all concerned with the teacher shortage and are proactive [in] exposing students in high school to the possibilities of the education profession while also supporting the new teachers who are in their first to third year,” 太阳城娱乐官网 Chair of the 教师教育学系 钱德拉·迪亚兹博士说。 

为了帮助教师保留和目标教师短缺，教授和科尔尼社区成员组成的团队联合起来创建补助金资助的太阳城娱乐官网中太阳城娱乐官网教育管道项目。 The group includes 太阳城娱乐官网’s Diaz, Dr. Aprille Phillips and Dr. Chelsea Feusner of the 教育管理专业珍妮特·埃克森博士 部门 现代语言, 以及来自科尔尼公立学校（KPS）的梅丽莎赫尔曼。 

这个项目的一个方面是通过早期职业教育者群体来留住一年级教师。 这个组成部分的目的是为现有的教育工作者提供额外的支持，并为攻读研究生学位提供部分奖学金。 

“We will support teacher retention by expanding the current support for new teachers in partnership between 太阳城娱乐官网, KPS, ESU10, and other schools,” Diaz explained. 

通过这个群体，刚刚开始他们职业生涯的教师可以获得新的成长机会，并在他们需要额外帮助的时候获得资源。 

“These [grant] funds will allow us to expand the professional development opportunities for this group, identify barriers and unique challenges of new teachers using data from the Teacher Satisfaction Task Force, and support these new educators through their first three years of teaching,” Diaz added.  

该队列针对的是在ESU10服务领域职业生涯的前三年的PK-12全日制公立教育教师。 从2023年秋季学年开始的第二批学生的申请现已开放。 届时，将为符合条件的研究生提供31个部分奖学金。 

“The participants for the Early Career Educator Cohort are chosen on a variety of factors,” Diaz said.  

除上述标准外，满足以下至少两项条件的申请人将获得优先考虑：必须参加ESU10新教师学院，是第一次研究生，是教学专业中代表性不足的社区的成员，和/或在数学，特殊教育，世界语言，职业和技术教育，科学等严重短缺认可领域之一教学。  

“We will also encourage current paraeducators to gain their teaching endorsement,” Diza added. 

从赠款中获得的资金还为从其他职业领域过渡到该专业的教师提供支持。  

虽然教师保留是太阳城娱乐官网中太阳城娱乐官网教育工作者管道的重要组成部分，但这个由三部分组成的项目的其他两个组成部分解决了教师短缺问题。 第一部分涉及组建一个当地教师短缺工作组。  

“This group will work to develop and implement a survey, as well as look at other strategies to really dig into the issue of teacher shortage,” said Diaz. “The findings from the survey will guide our work as we move forward.” 

迪亚兹怀疑，许多关于教师职业的全国性讨论可能源于这项研究。  

“If we remain in alignment as a local region with what some of the national surveys are showing, we may see factors such as work conditions and flexibility in scheduling rise to the surface,” she explained.  

第二个组成部分侧重于通过与ESU10学校和当地教育工作者崛起组织的伙伴关系招聘教育人员。 目标是确定该地区的高中三年级和四年级学生参加教育者探索者学院。  

“The Academy will help give students a glimpse into the education profession and encourage them to consider careers in teaching and other education professions,” Diaz said.

太阳城娱乐官网太阳城娱乐官网中部教育管道项目旨在发现和解决教育中出现的差距，产生对职业的新兴趣，并帮助教师在职业生涯中取得成功。  

“What I love about what we are doing is we are focused on getting students excited about the education profession, surveying teachers to find out what high-leverage practices are being implemented, and... supporting our newest educators in the profession in an effort to develop more skills and networks,” she said. 

有兴趣参加为期两年的早期职业教育群体的教育工作者应该联系迪亚兹、埃克森、福斯纳或菲利普斯。 这个竞争激烈的项目将为符合条件的申请人提供宝贵的经验。 

“You will grow your professional network, find a community to support your teaching practice, and start graduate study to advance on the salary scale,” explained Diaz. “Led by Teaching and Learning Coordinators at ESU10 and the University of Nebraska-Kearney faculty, you will have the opportunity to earn nine hours of graduate study while receiving job-embedded professional learning."  

太阳城娱乐官网太阳城娱乐官网中部教育管道项目也在寻求可持续的资金来源。 如果您有兴趣成为持续资助者，请联系以下教员之一： 

钱德拉·迪亚兹, diazcc@unk.edu, 308-865-8556 

珍妮特•Eckerson eckersonjm@unk.edu, 308-865-8051 

切尔西福伊斯纳, feusnercm@unk.edu 308-627-0435 

Aprille菲利普斯 phillipsa@unk.edu 402-618-2769