{"id":92608,"date":"2025-05-07T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=92608"},"modified":"2025-05-08T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:32:46","slug":"leaders-announce-investment-in-educator-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_07_2025\/leaders-announce-investment-in-educator-academy","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Announce Investment in Educator Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Aspiring Young Educators conference Tuesday organized by Toledo Public Schools at The University of Toledo, education leaders announced an investment in training future teachers in the community.<\/p>\n

The annual conference introduces students in grades 5-8 to various careers in the field of education.<\/p>\n

TPS Superintendent Romules Durant and UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder joined the conference to discuss plans for the Brady Educator and Social Services Academy, a new TPS school at the new Scott Park Campus focused on training future educators in grades 7-9, initially, when it opens in fall 2026.<\/p>\n

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UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder.<\/p><\/div>\n

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TPS Superintendent Romules Durant.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As announced Tuesday, the new academy will be supported by a $1 million gift from Tom and Betsy Brady. Tom Brady is the founder, chair and CEO of Plastic Technologies Inc. He also is a former member of the UToledo Board of Trustees and former interim dean of the Judith Herb College of Education.<\/p>\n

TPS Board President Bob Vasquez and Owens Community College President Dionne Somerville joined the announcement.<\/p>\n

UToledo is a partner with TPS on its initiative to renovate Scott Park to host the educator academy, as well as an additional business academy and a construction and architectural design academy.<\/p>\n

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From left, Betsy and Tom Brady and TPS Superintendent Romules Durant.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Owens Community College President Dionne Somerville, left, UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder, center, and TPS Board President Bob Vasquez.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"UToledo<\/a>

The Brady Educator and Social Services Academy is a new TPS school at the new Scott Park Campus focused on training future educators in grades 7-9, initially, when it opens in fall 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":92610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92611,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92608\/revisions\/92611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}