The Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC) is a Denver-based non-profit organization that recruits, develops and advocates for teachers. PEBC is Colorado's largest Residency program, having prepared over 1,000 highly effective teachers across Colorado. Today, PEBC offers five pathways to teaching:
Traditional Residency Pathway
Teacher of Record Pathway
Special Education Pathway
Pre-Bachelor’s Pathway
New American Pathway
As a PEBC Teacher Residency participant, you will be trained over one year and supported by expert instructors and coaches committed to your success. Residency experiences are offered in public, private and charter schools in rural, urban and suburban schools across Colorado. PEBC welcomes culturally diverse candidates, including multilingual learners.
This is where I’m supposed to be. PEBC was a tremendous stepping stone. I needed them to be there. Their support hurtled me forward a little faster, and really helped me leap into teaching, a career I love.
PEBC believes the classroom is the best place to develop the teaching skills you need. To meet your unique needs, PEBC offers five pathways toward earning professional teacher licensure. Regardless of the pathway you choose, you will receive unparalleled support from mentor teachers, PEBC coaches, and instructors, as well as through membership in learning cohorts.
No prior experience working with youth is required for the Traditional Residency Pathway. PEBC intentionally matches you with a mentor teacher in the subject area and grade level you're interested in. You will learn alongside your mentor teacher for an entire academic year, gradually taking on more lead teaching responsibility as the year progresses. As a traditional resident, you will receive a scholarship that includes a cash payout during your residency year.
PEBC is proud to report that 93 percent of teacher residents successfully find employment as a lead teacher the year after residency, often in their placement district.
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Amount
Description
Grants, Stipends, Scholarships
There is no cost for the program other than the $600 deposit.
PEBC stipend: During the program, you will receive a minimum stipend from PEBC of $10,000.
FAFSA: If you are eligible through FAFSA, you will receive at least an additional $8,000 from the State of Colorado.
High-priority content stipends: If you want to teach secondary math, secondary science, or Early Childhood Education, additional stipends are available.
PEBC is continually seeking more grant funding for residents. To get the most updated financial information, attend an information session. You can register here.
Licensure Areas
Agriculture 7-12 Art K-12 Business 7-12 Computer Science K-12 Dance K-12 Early Childhood Education Birth-8 Elementary Education K-6 English 7-12 Family & Consumer Sciences 7-12 Health K-12 Industrial Technology Education 7-12 Mathematics 6-12 Mathematics 6-8 Music K-12 Physical Education K-12 Science 7-12 Social Studies 7-12 Visual Arts K-12 World Languages K-12
Program Semesters/Steps Overview
PEBC believes that pre-service educators should be treated and trained as professionals. Each of the five licensure pathways blends educational theory with hands-on practice. PEBC coaches and instructors model best practices through seminar coursework, allowing you to immediately transfer your learning into practice for the most effective results.
During your residency, you will have opportunities to observe and reflect alongside master teachers during learning labs and participate in PEBC's institutes. Learn more.
Program Hallmarks
We know that classroom experience dramatically enhances resident growth and simultaneously improves teacher retention rates. Because of this, hands-on experience is a cornerstone of our program.
Throughout the residency year, our residents engage in a year-long co-teaching model with a highly effective mentor teacher where residents gradually take on more responsibility for planning and teaching throughout the year.
The PEBC Teacher Residency intentionally and thoughtfully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion as a foundational component of its program. Foundational texts discuss the practice of culturally responsive teaching and 100 seminar hours are spent engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse educational topics. The program has incorporated anti-biased education principles into its guiding practices and ensures its residents are placed in a variety of classrooms in diverse settings.
Each resident is thoughtfully matched with an experienced mentor teacher for the duration of an entire school year. Prior to this matching, potential mentors and residents have the opportunity to engage in conversations to determine the fitness of a potential match. Residents then spend an entire year in their mentors’ classrooms, learning from the mentor’s demonstration of best practice. Each resident is also assigned to a dedicated program field coach who regularly visits residents in their mentors’ classrooms, observes lessons and gives feedback on lesson plans and instruction to provide support. The Field Coach continues to provide coaching support to Year 2 post-residents in their own classrooms after the residency year has ended.
The PEBC Teacher Residency partners with the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) to support nation-wide research and advocacy for teacher residency programs.
Through this partnership, both qualitative and quantitative data are collected about specific program components. The resulting data drive continuous improvement efforts at the program level. Further, internal processes for eliciting formative feedback from residents, mentors and school leaders help to inform our continuous improvement efforts throughout the year.
PEBC provides high-quality and nationally recognized professional learning opportunities. PEBC alumni have access to all professional learning for free or heavily discounted up to five years post-program completion. PEBC alumni also have access to their PEBC coach for advice, observations and feedback during their first few years of teaching.
Stats
Gender
Male
Female
37%
63%
Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaskan Native
Asian
Black
Hispanic/Latino
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
White
Two or more races
0%
11%
12%
13%
0%
63%
1%
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