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Ohio college fund to help Black educators
Clark State College has established a fund to help support diverse educators. The Black Educators Support Fund is through the Clark State Foundation and created by an anonymous donor. It’s to help support the recruitment, retention and development of Black educators as well as raise awareness for the need of those professionals across all age […]
Read MoreApply: Leading Men Fellowship
In partnership with DC Public Schools and support from the DC Public Education Fund, The Literacy Lab launched the Leading Men Fellowship in 2016. Through the Leading Men Fellowship, The Literacy Lab is helping to diversify the teacher pipeline by engaging recent high school graduates in exploring a career in early childhood education. Leading Men […]
Read MoreHow Richmond Public Schools is working to attract more male minority teachers
The lack of male minority teachers is a problem that exists across the country as well as in Richmond, according to the 2019 National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson. Robinson now serves as a senior adviser in the talent office at Richmond Public Schools. He’s also in charge of the Teacher Leader Pathways office, […]
Read MoreVideo: Black Teacher Residency program aims to diversify Indiana educator pool
EducateME is partnering with Marian University to target the growing teacher shortage be diversifying the pipeline by offering full ride scholarships to those selected for the Black Teacher Residency program. The graduate program addresses the shortage, but also takes aim at improving outcomes from students across the board. EducateME is continuing on a mission it […]
Read MoreEditorial: Irish Teacher – We’ll change nothing if we don’t start working on our ordinary men
It was International Women’s Day this week. I wish we’d spent more of it talking about men. If you want more light in a room, you don’t discuss the light, you consider extending your windows. The same applies to gender equality. To create a better world for women we need to talk about men. The […]
Read MoreRebranded as ‘Sirtify,’ Minnesota program propels Black men into education careers
Last year, Normandale Community College in Bloomington launched a program called “Black Men in Teaching” to help streamline Black men into careers in education. The program has since rebranded its name to “Sirtify,” and will be graduating its inaugural cohort in the spring. The program comes as the number of teachers in Minnesota who identify […]
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