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Georgia’s new Teacher of the Year: Former attorney looking to make lasting impact
The state Department of Education announced the Georgia Teacher of the Year today. Interesting to see that six of the 10 finalists, including the winner, are male teachers. (Nationwide, 84 percent of k-12 teachers are women.) Here is the DOE release: Ernest William Lee, II, an International Baccalaureate history, U.S. government and civics teacher from […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – April 2015
MenTeach E-News April 2015 1) Proud to have a young man to be the child care centre’s manager in Malaysia 2) Recruiting Male Teachers 3) I’m so glad we hired a male au pair 4) Male teachers in Quebec schools 5) Brief letter about teaching for 17 years 6) On Sale: Men Who Teach Young […]
Read MoreBlack male teachers: There aren’t enough of them
Consider these statistics: Slightly more than half of all public schools students are children of color. Yet, despite documented benefits of a racially and ethnically diverse teaching force, no more than 2 percent of teachers in the public education system are black men. What’s more, research shows that teachers of color are leaving the profession. […]
Read MoreNew scheme launched to get more men into childcare jobs in United Kingdom
A new scheme has been set up to help encourage more men to enter the childcare profession in Lancashire. The Lancashire Men in Childcare Network has been established by Andrew Clifford, managing director of the First Class Childcare Group, which has bases in Barrow, Whalley, Accrington and Clayton-le-Moors. The group will hold it’s first meeting […]
Read MoreNonprofit trains students to stay in school, become teachers
In her 20 years as CEO of Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers, Bettye H. Perkins has seen hundreds of ninth-graders return to their schools as teachers after completing the nonprofit’s mentorship and training program. The mission of the White Plains-based nonprofit is to fill the diversity gap in the teaching profession by training culturally diverse and […]
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