In addition to preparing teachers for the future, paid internships are being created through grant funding.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — As teacher shortages continue to limit schools’ ability to educate, teachers are coming together to try and find solutions.
“They’re pulling in retired educators, retired superintendents, retired quality teachers to come in and give them, I think one of them called it thought partners?” Tejada-Delgado said. “Where they can have these conversations and talk about what’s going on. And then talk about ways that they can mitigate those issues.”
A weekend conference at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi aimed to address the issue of teacher retention across the Coastal Bend.
“We’re a little scared and teachers are a little scared, but they don’t want to leave their love,” said Carmen Tejada-Delgado, who is a professor of education at TAMU-CC. “They don’t want to leave their passion. They don’t want to leave …