COLLEGE PARK, MD (March, 2015) Two College of Education alumni, now teachers at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, have been accepted into the Hollyhock Fellowship Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. Jacob Goldberg (B.A. Social Studies Education ’12) and Kevin Burke (B.A. Social Studies Education ’09; M.Ed. TESOL ’15) will begin their fellowships with a summer residency at Stanford. Their fellowship team will also include Northwestern science teacher Salma Nabi, a graduate of the University of Virginia, and English teacher Victoria James, currently a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University.
Nearly half of all teachers leave the classroom within their first five years in the profession, the fellowship program’s website explains, and in schools that serve low-income students, turnover is even higher. To address this problem, the Hollyhock Fellowship Program aims to encourage and support talented early-career teachers by providing them with rich learning opportunities with their colleagues nationwide.
For two consecutive summers, the program brings one hundred teachers from U.S. high schools with low-income student populations to Stanford University for two weeks of residential workshops that feature courses taught by university scholars and expert practitioners. Fellows also receive online coaching and mentorship for two school years. The program additionally offers a stipend and covers fellows’ travel and boarding expenses.
Eligibility for the Hollyhock Fellowship is targeted: applicants must have 2-7 years of teaching experience; must teach science, math, history, or English at a school where more than half the students qualify for free and reduced meals; and must have a record of high-quality teaching. Fellows attend in teams: each participating school must send at least two teachers.
Click here to learn more about the Stanford Hollyhock Fellowship for High School Teachers.
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