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San Francisco public school leaders desperately want and need people like 22-year-old Tina Yang. She was born and raised in the city, and knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was 5 years old. “When I first went to kindergarten here, I didn’t speak...

With nearly 50 teaching positions still left to fill by the Aug. 17 beginning of the school year, the San Francisco Unified School District is touting at least one strategy it has deemed successful in recruiting educators: its teacher residency program....

California Educator August 2015 SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (SFUSD) found solutions to these questions by partnering with two Bay Area universities and the local teachers union to create a “residency” program that goes beyond typical preservice...

Averel Wilson earned a degree from an Ivy League school, raised three children and worked for years as a banker. But when she switched gears two years ago to become a schoolteacher, Ms. Wilson knew she wasn’t equipped to handle a classroom alone....