Westchester School Counselor Certification
Alfred University and CITE are proud to expand our School Counselor Certification Program to Westchester. Designed for NYS Certification in School Counseling 1/3 the cost of similar programs –$1095 for 3 credits! Weekend courses 22 months, 48 credits in Downtown Brooklyn, Oceanside, and now Westchester. Cohort Program – perfect for networking during and after your program. […]
SBL Graduate Success Spotlight – C Davis
We’re happy to celebrate SBL graduate success! Crystal Davis is the Assistant Principal / Co-Director at the Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights, and a graduate of Cohort 44 of the College of St. Rose SBL (School Building Leader) Program. We recently got the opportunity to catch up with Crystal about her training, and […]
School Crowding
Here’s a link to a WNYC article about school crowding and new construction. http://www.wnyc.org/story/city-budget-beefs-up-school-construction-doesnt-ease-overcrowding/ Basically, the city has changed how it calculates the amount of seats available, so that it now needs to build 83,000 new seats, rather than the 33,000 it had previously stated it needed. That’s going to cost 5.4 Billion dollars over […]
NYC Teacher Shortage Looms
The media is starting to understand that there will be a teacher shortage, given how the current group of teachers skews older, enrollments in teacher training programs are declining precipitously, and people interested in teaching are turned off by the extent of testing. This article from Politico NY posits that it’s time to take a look […]
