TEI Fellows and Friends of CRTWC,
You have been in our thoughts! We have deeply appreciated your participation in the Teacher Educator Institutes and your support of our work at the Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC). Our hope is that your commitment to the CRTWC Anchor Competencies Framework continues to serve as an invaluable resource for your approach to and efforts in education.
We believe building trusting relationships is the ‘super anchor competency’. Yet, it is the ‘sustaining of trusting relationships’ that is often pushed to the side as an outcome of the complexities of life. Recently, one of our CRTWC team members shared the following. “I received an email from a previous teacher candidate, expressing gratitude for the support and guidance she had received from me in my role as her faculty adviser. She shared pictures of her family and about her experience as a 4th grade teacher. She stated that she often could hear my voice from our instructional coaching conversations and that it still serves her well in her practice. She closed by stating, ‘I think of you often. Thank you.” It reminded me that as teacher educators we do ‘make a difference’ in the development of teacher candidates through our sphere of influence.” We are committed to sustaining the relationships we had the honor of establishing with you as TEI Fellows, as well as through our other initiatives. We still aim to support your impact in your work as teacher educators and/or your other pursuits in education and beyond. As this new year begins, we want you to know that you matter to us. Our “journey together” is not over. To that end, we will be curating a regular CRTWC newsletter to offer information about our continual growth as an organization, open the door for collaboration, and provide you with resources, inspiration, and support. This newsletter will also serve as a platform for sharing the stories of building a Social, Emotional and Cultural lens and the impact this lens can have on teaching and learning. So in 2024, we look forward to the opportunity to stay connected with each other!
In ‘JOY’ for the work…
The CRTWC Team
“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (“The Purpose of Education,” The Maroon Tiger, 1947)
