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Promising Practices: How a network of male teachers of color expanded leadership opportunities
The Compton Male Teachers of Color Network is helping its district strengthen professional problem-solving skills and empower educators. The district: The Compton Unified School District in California is located near Los Angeles and serves nearly 26,000 students. Students classified as Hispanic comprised 81.9% of the student body, and students identifying as Black were 16.9% of the […]
Read MoreTips for recruiting men into early years workforce: ‘childcare is not just a woman’s job’
Recruitment remains one of the biggest challenges for the sector to solve, and a pressing issue is balancing the gender of the early years workforce, of which just four per cent are men. Addressing the sector’s recruitment issues is important to ensure we have enough well qualified staff to keep the sector viable. An important […]
Read More‘Have I chosen the right career?’ New teachers reflect on their first year
From group bubbles to virtual classrooms, it was a strange year to be starting out in school. How did they cope? It is nearly a year since the Guardian met three newly qualified teachers entering the classroom for their first full-time jobs. Excited, nervous, idealistic, all three saw teaching as a vocation, helping to support […]
Read MoreSorority Makes $6,000 Donation to University of Virgin Islands With Aim of Attracting More Male Educators to Classrooms
The St. Thomas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority made a $6,000 donation on Thursday, June 24, to the Geraldine Heath Scholarship with the aim of attracting more male educators to classrooms, the University of the Virgin Islands has announced. Established at UVI in 2008, the four-year scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate male […]
Read MorePrimary school students get their male role models in Australia
He can dance, he can sing and he is one of the men breaking the trend of female-led classes at one Canberra primary school. Mathew McRae is one of five male teachers at Hughes Primary School, with three of the four kindergarten and grade one classes now having a man at the helm. Last year, […]
Read MoreFor first time, more women teachers in schools than men in India
For first time, more women teachers in schools than men in India outnumber their male counterparts, according to the Unified District Information on School Education report for 2019-20. Of the 96.8 lakh teachers in the country, 49.2 lakh are women. In 2012-13, there were 35.8 lakh women teachers across India against 42.4 lakh men — […]
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