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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 16d

The Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement, Pre- and Post-COVID journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s a new perspective piece at EdNC focused on full time principal internships in NC. Good news is that the state has decided to fund them for the 2025-26 year! But the issue—questions about the importance of the internship and funding for it—will still be there. www.ednc.org/perspective-...

Perspective | Maintaining North Carolina’s excellence in principal preparation

Without a state budget, future principals in North Carolina face a limited internship opportunity — three months instead of 10.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to share this EdNC perspective piece on the TA to teacher pipeline! www.ednc.org/perspective-...
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Perspective | Aiding to leading? Pathways and outcomes for early-career teachers with teaching assistant experience

A new research brief examines the contributions, characteristics, and outcomes of beginning teachers with TA experience.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 15

4: Perhaps most importantly, beginning teachers with TA experience have significantly higher retention rates.

Overall, this study highlights that former TAs are making positive contributions to NC schools. These findings have implications for district recruitment, hiring, and support efforts.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 15

3: Early career teachers with TA experience have similar evaluation ratings and value added estimates as other early career teachers. Among early career teachers with an emergency teaching license, former TAs are more effective.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 15

2: Former TAs possess many characteristics valued by districts. For example, over 50% of beginning teachers with TA experience are a person of color. Nearly 20% have a special education teaching license.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 15

1: We found that former TAs make up a meaningful percentage of the beginning teacher workforce. Over a 3 yr period, 17% of beginning teachers in NC had worked as a TA first.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 15

Each year NC public schools employs more than 20,000 teaching assistants (TAs). Those individuals may be a promising source of future teachers. With that in mind, we investigated the TA to teacher pipeline in NC. Four interesting findings emerged: epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 11

Lastly, interns moved into a school administrator position in a high need school more quickly if they interned in a high need school (even accounting for this being the same school).

Characteristics of internship placements and mentor principals predict movements into administrator roles.

Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 11

Interns moved into an administrator position more quickly if they were male, in a competitive scholarship loan program, were coming from a rural location, and if their mentor principal was higher rated.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 11

A few key findings:
A meaningful number of interns do not enter a school administrator position. 7 years after the completion of a principal internship roughly 65% of interns are predicted to have become an administrator.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Aug 11

I am excited to see this work in print! With colleagues Tim Drake and Andrew Otte we used data from NC to assess how characteristics of principal interns and their internship experiences predict movement into a school administrator position. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jun 26

Shout out to @epic-unc.bsky.social colleagues Rachel Rana and @mrosie.bsky.social for their presentations today at the NC Learning Research Network session! @ncpublicschools.bsky.social @ehutt.bsky.social @t-h-a-d.bsky.social

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jan 28

Very excited to release our annual evaluation report for the NC Principal Fellows program. We look forward to continuing to work with NCPFP to provide data and evidence that fuels program improvement and the leadership pipeline in NC. epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thanks to NCDPI for their partnership and insights throughout this work!

Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jan 10

With the end of pandemic relief funding (ESSER cliff), districts may be unable to retain the same number of support personnel. Keep in mind there are still serious concerns with student achievement and attendance and support personnel benefit these outcomes.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jan 10

The number of social workers in NC public schools has increased by 27 percent since the 2020 school year. Pandemic relief funding (eg ESSER) has played a big role in this increase, especially in urban districts.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jan 10

NC public schools have more counselors and social workers than prior to the pandemic and the ratios of these personnel to students have increased. That’s good news for schools working to meet whole child needs AND in spite of increased attrition for counselors and social workers in recent years.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Jan 10

Excited to release, with coauthors Camille Mikkelsen and @sarahcfuller.bsky.social, a new research brief on NC’s support personnel workforce (counselors, social workers, school psychologists) through the pandemic epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

A few key findings:

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Nov 19

Thank you!!

Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Nov 19

Adding me to the education policy researchers would be much appreciated!

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Nov 18

Not currently but very open to that possibility. We’ve been pushing to have some initial results in time for the legislative session in TX.

Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Nov 18

5) Again, this is initial work that needs replication and on-going analyses. But important to show that investments in high quality and accessible teacher preparation show early returns.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Nov 18

3) 1st year teachers who completed a paid residency perform comparably to other 1st year teachers in math and are much more effective in reading.
4) Paid residents are also more likely to return for a second year of teaching in TX.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · Nov 18

2) Mentor teachers are 5 % points more likely to return to their school in the year after hosting a paid resident.

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