The partnership between Minneapolis Roosevelt High School and UMN TERI program continues to grow and deepen as it enters its third year. Roosevelt has added seven new teachers to its staff this year, five of whom are recent graduates from UMN teacher licensure programs in Kinesiology, Second Languages and Cultures, World Languages, Science, and Social Studies.
Innovative techniques in working with teacher candidates and instructing students have crossed the partnership bridge. Math ILP Instructor, Terry Wyberg, is conducting his initial methods course at Roosevelt this fall for the second time. This year, he is collaborating with the Roosevelt math department to implement instructional techniques using the Ipad.
Roosevelt continues to be a rich site for clinical placements and the partnership continues to offer opportunity for shared efforts to improve student learning. Roosevelt is hosting ten DirecTrack to Teaching students in various classrooms such as English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Welding. Autoshop, and Band. The UMN social studies ILP has three teacher candidates placed at Roosevelt for their fall practicum. Fourteen Roosevelt staff have registered for the TERI-RHS partnership professional development action research project, focused on bettering instruction for long-term English language learners.
Finally, Roosevelt was recently noted as “Beating the Odds,” after a comparison of MCA reading test results revealed a high percentage of students were scoring at a grade level or better, despite a high number of RHS students living in poverty.

Roosevelt High School-UMN-TC Partnership Liaison, Jehanne Beaton; Terry Wyberg, CEHD Math Senior Lecturer; and Nina Asher, Department Chair of Curriculum & Instruction, CEHD recently toured RHS, met with principal Michael Bradley and visited with UMN-TC teacher candidates and graduates working on site.