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...this fall is Espiritu. She is one of three new teachers at the school recruited from the Philippines to help fill Baltimore's yawning teacher shortage. "I had to get out of my comfort zone," says Espiritu, who taught for 14 years at an exclusive private school in Manila. "I had to try something...
...Austria, Canada and Spain for years. Three years ago, it began recruiting in the Philippines. Administrators in the city say only 10% of those recruits have left and 530 Filipino teachers are currently working in the city's schools. So last fall Duque took an 18-hour flight to Manila, courtesy of Avenida International Consultants (AIC), an agency that specializes in connecting U.S. schools with Filipino teachers. AIC put him up in a five-star hotel for five days and introduced him to a stream of experienced teachers eager to work...
...Philippines students are ritually deferential to teachers and stand to address them. U.S. school districts try to smooth the transition. Tasha Franklin, director of training and teacher development for Baltimore's teaching residency program, led a four-hour workshop in October for the teachers Duque had hired in Manila...
...Baltimore officials are pleased with the early feedback they're getting on the Filipino teachers. At the end of this month a recruiting team will return to Manila for four days of interviewing. They hope to bring back 50 new teachers...
...Harvard packet first, and so it was thrilling to have a packet of papers with ‘Veritas’ letterheads,” Kendrick writes in an e-mail. But she was surprised to rip open the Priority Mail envelope to find “essentially just manila letters and photocopied sheets of info...