OTM's Reach Institute in the News...
In her spare time Denise Caruso, a member of the Whitman community and executive director of the Hybrid Vigor Institute in San Francisco, is also a writer for the New York Times. Her latest piece in today's (11-4-07) edition highlighted the work done by Page Tomkins and his colleagues at the Reach Institute also in the Bay Area.
Reach is an innovative teacher training and credentialing program that grew out of the work of On The Move (also a Whitman grantee). This new teacher development process turns the whole notion of teacher training on its head. Instead of traditional training where new teachers spend most of the year studying about teaching and then practice a few weeks at the end of the year, Reach teachers spend the majority of their time in their classrooms actually teaching supported by mentors and other subject matter experts (SMEs). What makes this process so unique? Well for one thing these new teachers designed it themselves.
Read all about it here.