Monday morning news roundup

A working group of training stakeholders is set to weigh other state’s teacher licensure methods during a daylong meeting at the Statehouse.

Tiered Licensure Technical Advisory Committee Chairman Roger Quarles presides more than the group’s October meeting.

The 13-member Tiered Licensure Advisory Committee is charged with implementing the licensure recommendation issued by Gov. Butch Otter’s Process Force for Strengthening Training.
The task force also issued a 2nd recommendation to transform instructor shell out by producing profession ladder model that is tied to licensure.

In the course of today’s meeting, members of the tiered licensure group are set to assessment and critique licensure versions used in Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina.

Throughout the licensure committee’s 1st meeting on Oct. 28, members discussed the background data and framework of possible licensure designs.

Stick to @IdahoEdNews on Twitter for live tweets from the meeting and verify back at www.idahoednews.org late in the afternoon for a total recap from the meeting.

Eastern Idaho principal honored

Sugar-Salem Higher School Principal Jared Jenks was 1 of seven principals in the country to win a National Blue Ribbon Schools principal award last week.

Jenks earned the Terrell H. Bell Award for “fostering effective educating and finding out at their schools” and undertaking “whatever it will take to assist their students meet higher standards,” in accordance to an announcement from the Idaho State Division of Training.

Jenks was the only Idaho principal to win the honor, and joined other award recipients from Alabama, Delaware, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada and South Dakota.

Idaho college students set for European cultural tour

Borah Substantial School junior Jacie Wilde and 38 other students from Idaho and Oregon will travel to the United Kingdom following summer season as element of a cultural tour.

The college students will participate in the Folks to Men and women Student Ambassador’s Celtic Cultural tour in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

For the duration of the 19-day tour, college students will understand about background, political science, artwork and architecture.

CenturyLink grants accessible

Middle college leaders in several Idaho communities have until finally Saturday to apply for a $ three,000 classroom grant.

CenturyLink is supplying up to eight of the grants to junior substantial or middle colleges found in Idaho or Oregon communities that are served by CenturyLink through the Middle College Philanthropy Plan.

Eligible middle colleges are in American Falls, Bancroft, Bellevue, Blackfoot, Bliss, Boise, Bruneau, Burley, Buhl, Caldwell, Castleford, Cottonwood, Craigmont, Culdesac, Declo, Downey, Dayton, Dietrich, Eagle, Eden, Emmett, Franklin, Firth, Gooding, Glenns Ferry, Grace, Grangeville, Grandview, Grasmere, Greenleaf, Hailey, Hagerman, Hammett, Hansen, Hazelton, Heyburn, Idaho City, Idaho Falls, Inkom, Jerome, Kamiah, Kimberly, Ketchum, Kooskia, Kuna, Lapwai, Lava Sizzling Springs, Lewisville, Leadore, Lewiston, Menan, McCammon, Middleton, Melba, Meridian, Murtaugh, Mountain Home, Montpelier, Murphy, Nampa, New Plymouth, Nez Perce, North Fork, Notus, Picabo, Payette, Placerville, Pocatello, Preston, Richfield, Riddle, Roberts, Rigby, Ririe, Riverside, Rexburg, Salmon, Soda Springs, Shelley, Shoshone, Star, Sugar City, Sun Valley, Thatcher, Twin Falls, Winchester, Weiser and Wendell.

Go to the Idaho Neighborhood Foundation’s website for more particulars or to apply by Saturday.

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Monday morning news roundup