Kellogg Foundation fellowship program to place teachers at Ypsilanti Public Schools
Ypsilanti Public Schools, among other districts, is partnering with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to beef up its teaching staff.
On Wednesday, the Kellogg Foundation celebrated its second class of Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellows in Lansing alongside Gov. Rick Snyder.
The foundation selected 74 people from a pool of 2,000 for its second year of the program. These individuals included both recent college graduates and career changers. Some of the individuals chosen as fellows have backgrounds as a fighter pilot, a biologist, a pastor and a sea kayak instructor.
Each fellow receives a $30,000 stipend to complete a master’s degree program in exchange for a three-year commitment to teaching in Michigan’s high-need urban and rural secondary schools. Some of the fellows will be attending Eastern Michigan and the University of Michigan to receive their master's degrees.
Partner school districts include Detroit, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Godfrey-Lee, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Wyoming and Ypsilanti. Organizers expect the teachers in the program to work with about 100,000 students during their time of service.
The Kellogg Foundation has pledged $18 million to support the program.
Staff reporter Danielle Arndt covers K-12 education for AnnArbor.com. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleArndt or email her at daniellearndt@annarbor.com.
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Richard Roe
Thu, Jun 21, 2012 : 9:53 p.m.
The WWK Fellowship is a teacher training program as the article states. I believe the title is a bit misleading, the placements will be for clinical observations and student teaching placements. Also, just to clarify, upon graduation the fellows will be job searching like normal.
Geoff Larcom
Fri, Jun 15, 2012 : 8:04 p.m.
Note: Here is a list of this year's EMU Fellows, along with their hometown and educational degrees: Cory Chavis, Canton Undergraduate college, class, and major: University of Detroit Mercy '95, mechanical engineering Graduate institution and degree: Ashford University '11, M.B.A. Cheyenne Diadiun, Ypsilanti Undergraduate college, class, and major: Eastern Michigan University '03, dietetics Marissa Fountain-Nelson, Kalamazoo Undergraduate college, class, and major: Boston University '09, athletic training Graduate college, class, and major: University of Nevada, Las Vegas '11 M.S. (kinesiology) Ping He, Ann Arbor Undergraduate college, class, and major: Peking University '97, chemistry Graduate institution and degree: Brown University '01, M.S. (organic chemistry) Wade Reeser, Centre Hall, PA Undergraduate college, class, and major: Penn State '85, engineering science Graduate college, class, and degree: Pennsylvania State University '92, M.S. (electrical engineering), '02 Ph.D. (bioengineering) Richard Roe, Ypsilanti Undergraduate college, class, and major: Eastern Michigan University '10, physics Kevin Steinhelper, Canton Undergraduate college, class, and major: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor '08, mathematical sciences In addition to Roe and Diadiun, another EMU graduate, Dianielle Rosen of Wyandotte, was selected as a fellow. Rosen, who graduated from EMU in 2010 with a bachelor's in biology and a master's this year in molecular biology, will attend Western Michigan University. Note: Geoff Larcom is executive director of media relations at EMU.
Y-TownMom
Fri, Jun 15, 2012 : 5:40 p.m.
This is very surprising, and I wonder what the teacher's unions will do/ say about this. Ypsilanti Public Schools are not hard to staff. In fact, they just laid off a lot of teachers because they had too many.
ahi
Tue, Jun 19, 2012 : 5:22 a.m.
The teachers that were laid off were experienced. This will set things right by giving poor kids the unqualified and inexperienced teachers they deserve.