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Lincoln Public Schools expands 'Grow Your Own' teacher pipelines, aims for 28 new special-education hires by 2027
Summary
District officials described multi-track apprenticeship and partnership programs intended to convert paraeducators and classified staff into certified teachers, with partnerships with UNL and registered apprenticeships through the Nebraska Department of Education and Department of Labor.
Lincoln Public Schools trustees heard a detailed update Feb. 11 on the district’s Grow Your Own career pathways, a set of apprenticeship and partnership programs designed to increase the number of certified and classified staff and create hiring pipelines into special education and early childhood classrooms.
The report, led by Barb Miller, the district’s emerging educators empowerment specialist, and introduced by Van Price, described three special-education “cadres” and multiple early-childhood tracks that pair current paraeducators and classified staff with university partners and on-the-job mentors.
Miller said the first special-education pathway, launched in fall 2023 in partnership with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), is a 2½-year program for paraeducators who already hold baccalaureate degrees and combines evening and summer coursework with district support. That program is expected to…
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