Fall 2022 Cohort Journey into Teaching Academy: A Professional Development Initiative for Selected Second Year Provisionally Certified Special Education Teachers

Description:

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is announcing a Fall 2022 cohort of the Journey into Teaching Academy. This is a yearlong professional development initiative for teachers completing their second year of teaching at the end of the 2021-2022 school year (SY) and entering their third year of teaching during the 2022-2023 SY as a provisionally licensed special education teacher. The Journey into Teaching Academy has been designed as a program to provide teacher support beyond mentorship in an effort to enhance the retention, as well as the overall performance of provisionally licensed special education teachers.