When Betsy Hargrove, superintendent of Avondale Elementary School District in Arizona, bumped into one of her district’s teacher candidates in the local Home Depot checkout line, she realized she had a bigger problem than home repairs. The teacher candidate wasn’t buying material for a DIY project — he was working the cash register. “I realized then that we needed a better way to support teacher candidates,” she said. “They shouldn’t have to juggle a part-time job to make ends meet while they finish their degree program and complete their student teaching in our classrooms.” Fortunately, Hargrove had forged a close partnership with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College of Education and volunteered the district to be a pilot site for the university’s Next Education