Culturally Diverse Teaching Workforce Series
Strategies to Promote a Culturally Diverse PK-12 Teaching Workforce
The Minority Educator Recruitment, Retention and Equity Center in partnership with the Office of Strategic Engagement are launching the first Strategies to Promote a Culturally Diverse PK-12 Teaching Workforce series. This series will address attracting and supporting educators of color through a culturally responsive lens.
Session Details
This 5-part series includes a personal/professional intercultural assessment, and micro-credential after completion. The Deadline to register is Friday, October, 29th.
Cost: $250
All sessions are held on Wednesdays via ZOOM from 4:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
| Date | Topic | Facilitator | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/26/22 | #HEARTWORK: Profile of a Leader | Rashard Write, Chief of Staff, Newport News City Public Schools | ||
| 11/16/22 | Community and School Partnerships (Attracting Teachers of Color) | Dallas Dance, President D Dance Group | ||
| 12/07/22 | The Future of Student Success and Academic Advising | Melinda Anderson, Executive Director NACADA Global Community for Academic Advising | ||
| 01/18/23 | More Than Aesthetics and Numbers: Retaining Students of Color at Historically White Institutions | Krystal Andrews | ||
| 02/15/23 | "What's Intersectionality Got to Do with It?: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Prospective Teachers of Color" | Kendra Johnson, Anti-Racist Teaching & Transformation Specialist |
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Strategies to Promote a Culturally Diverse PK-12 Teaching Workforce Session Descriptions and Learning Outcomes
This session will examine systems required to promote a culturally diverse K-12 teacher workforce. This includes the role of organizations and systems to attract, support, and retain teachers of color.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the key stakeholders' role in promoting a diverse K-12 teacher workforce.
- Identify sources at the local, state, and federal level to invest in recruiting and retaining teachers of color.
This session involves community-immersive partnerships that involves school districts, colleges and universities, and communities integrating to develop goals to attract, support, and retain K-12 teachers of color.
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze active involvement in urban and rural communities that builds on the assets of these communities.
- Establish how culturally responsive and sustaining practices can be infused into partnerships.
- Identify how to build and develop Grow Your Own programs.
This session examines the development of teacher residency programs as an alternative pathway to attract, support, and retain teachers of color.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how to develop partnerships to build a teacher residency program.
- Understand the important features of a teacher residency program.
- Identify resources at the local, state, and federal level to start your own teacher residency program.
This session will focus specifically on culturally competent mentoring and induction models to help improve the experiences of preservice and inservice teachers of color.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify culturally responsive and sustaining mentoring and induction interventions to support teachers of color.
- Unpack how to train and identify exemplary educators as culturally competent mentors who represent the diversity of teacher roles, educational settings, and career goals that our pre-service and in-service teacher of color mentees request.
This session will focus on guides to form groups across common interests. These interests can be racialized or across a more diverse intersectional (e.g., gender, sexual identity, age) membership.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand what are affinity groups and how they can be used to support and retain teachers of color.
- Identify strategies to develop and sustain affinity groups for teachers of color.