Thank You!About the Leadership Academy Network Teacher Residency Program
You’ll earn your teacher certification and Master of Arts in Teaching and get paid classroom experience all at once. Talk about a win-win-win.
Get hands-on teaching experience in your first year of the program under the supervision of a master teacher at the Leadership Academy Network (LAN). You will also take evening classes once a week at Texas Wesleyan to prepare you for your teacher certification exams.
In your second year, after you’ve earned your teacher certificate, you could be working as a teacher in your own classroom – earning a teacher’s salary! Pretty good deal, right? You’ll be finishing your coursework to complete your master’s degree simultaneously.
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MASTER-TEACHER TRAINING Hands-on training in the classroom under a master teacher |
FINISH WITH MASTER'S Earn a teaching certificate and master's degree in just 2 years |
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Our big scholarships make a master's degree in teaching affordable |
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MASTER-TEACHER TRAINING Hands-on training in the classroom under a master teacher |
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FINISH WITH MASTER'S Earn a teaching certificate and master's degree in just 2 years |
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SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Our big scholarships make a master's degree in teaching affordable |
Earn While You Learn
What could be better than making money doing what you love while you’re in school? Even in your first year in the program, while you’re gaining the classroom experience you need under the guidance of a master teacher, you’ll earn a salary and benefits.
After you’ve earned your teacher certificate, you’ll be moved to the top of the hiring pool for the LAN, which means the potential of earning a higher teacher’s salary in your second year.
Choose Your Concentration
You’ll earn your early childhood through grade 6 (EC-6) with ESL teaching certification and a Master of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in one of the following areas:
Learn from experienced professors who are former principals, administrators and superintendents. You’ll graduate from Texas Wesleyan prepared to complete the Performance Assessment for School Leaders (PASL) and ready to take on a whole new leadership role in education.
Become a teaching leader on a struggling campus with strategies to improve student achievement, parental involvement and social and emotional development of students. With special program components that focus on leadership and ESL, you’ll learn the culturally-responsive teaching methods needed for your classroom.
You’ll learn the foundations of reading and how to diagnose and fix reading difficulties. You'll get research and real-world experience in elementary or secondary content areas from expert professors.
Learn how to develop literacy skills and engage stalled readers. Diagnose reading difficulties and help English as a Second Language readers and adult readers.
Understand the cultural issues for non-English speakers of different ages. We’ll teach you the importance of communication across cultures – and you’ll learn how to transform a classroom with it.
How to Apply
Applications are due by June 15, 2020 and the program starts in July.
To qualify for the program, you must:
- Have a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university
- Have earned a minimum 2.5 GPA, either cumulative or from your last 60 credit hours
- Pass a Fort Worth ISD background check
Apply in 3 steps
- Apply to a FWISD Teacher Resident position
- Apply to the Master of Arts in Teaching at Texas Wesleyan
- Apply to the Teacher Education Program – we’ll send you information after you apply to TXWES
About the Leadership Academy Network
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Established in February 2019, the Leadership Academy Network is a first-of-its-kind partnership between Fort Worth ISD and Texas Wesleyan University, designed to sustain rising academic performance of the district’s five Leadership Academies at Como Elementary, John T. White Elementary, Maude I. Logan Elementary, Mitchell Boulevard Elementary and Forest Oak Middle School. The Leadership Academy model is based on instructional excellence, extended learning, social-emotional support, highly qualified principals and teachers and parent and community partnerships. |
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| Established in February 2019, the Leadership Academy Network is a first-of-its-kind partnership between Fort Worth ISD and Texas Wesleyan University, designed to sustain rising academic performance of the district’s five Leadership Academies at Como Elementary, John T. White Elementary, Maude I. Logan Elementary, Mitchell Boulevard Elementary and Forest Oak Middle School. The Leadership Academy model is based on instructional excellence, extended learning, social-emotional support, highly qualified principals and teachers and parent and community partnerships. |
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