By Vivian Abagiu Freshman orientation is a rite of passage for every incoming University of Texas at Austin student. The excitement is palpable as students navigate through buildings, tread into orientation halls, and plant the seeds of friendships. Ethan Prins and Dayanara De Anda are two such students, preparing for…

by Carrie Culpepper, UTeach National Network Coordinator, UTeach Institute, University of Texas at Austin “The kids are in the gym with the janitor,” the principal told me over the phone early one morning in August 2021. I texted one of the six instructional specialists on my team and asked her…

by Michael Marder, Executive Director of UTeach, The University of Texas at Austin Since the publication of A Nation at Risk[1] in 1983, we have known there is a shortage of STEM teachers in the U.S. Has the problem of the STEM teacher shortage been solved now, almost 40 years…

by Vivian Abagiu For Dr. Denelle Wallace, the fact that students of color can complete their entire K-12 education without ever having a teacher of color is astonishing — and motivating. Dr. …

by Amy Winters Dr. Milka Montes, Chemistry Department Chair at The University of Texas Permian Basin, is excited. “Being a UTeach teacher comes with a certain prestige,” she says with a big smile. She’s talking about the new partnership between UT Permian Basin and UTeach at The University of Texas…

Weeks before The University of Texas at Austin and K-12 education at large would be upended by the pandemic in 2020, three of UT Austin’s education leaders — Uri Treisman, Executive Director of the Charles A. …

How four UTeach programs worked to recruit students during a pandemic When the COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone to pivot rapidly to new ways of doing just about everything, UTeach programs in particular faced various operational and logistical challenges. One of the most pressing challenges was how to recruit new students…

by David Long with Edna Schack, MSUTeach (Morehead State University) Morehead State University and the MSUTeach program joined the UTeach family in 2015. I joined the faculty of MSU just as the university was enacting its first Step classes and was immediately off to Houston to learn the nuts and…

Kimberly Hughes Director, UTeach Institute Schooling, at all levels, is never returning to “normal.” The current pandemic, unfolding alongside recent racial violence, has not just forced a major shift in how instruction is delivered. …