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Jefferson welcomes district’s only male kindergarten teacher
Jefferson Elementary School will employ the district’s only male kindergarten teacher this school year. Grant Jones, 22, will teach about 20 kindergartners when classes begin Aug. 13. He will be the only man among 25 kindergarten teachers. Jefferson principal Roben Frentzel said Jones is a great guy. She said Jefferson also is home to male […]
Read MoreHow Boston Public Schools Can Recruit and Retain Black Male Teachers
Our guest author today is Travis J. Bristol, former high school English teacher in New York City public schools and teacher educator with the Boston Teacher Residency program, who is currently a research and policy fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) at Stanford University. The challenges faced by Black male […]
Read MoreWhy Are There So Few Men in Jewish Nursery School Classrooms?
It’s circle time in classroom four. Sixteen 5-year-olds sit on the carpet and patiently wait for the weather report. After observing Amsterdam Avenue through the large windows of the JCC in Manhattan’s nursery school, a blond girl in a pink dress announces, “It’s sunny and cloudy.” Her peers seem content with the analysis, and the […]
Read MoreColumn: Men in Early Childhood Education – On the Retreat In Hawaii
Our Hawaii Affiliate of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) – Men in Education Network Retreat was a resounding success! By design, the majority of attendees were men who work directly with young childre,n birth through age 8 years old, yet their professional positions and experiences range from PhD’s and teachers […]
Read MoreTen new University Programs to teach men teachers
MidAmerica Nazarene University announced that it is one of 10 universities nationwide selected by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to participate in the Association’s first Networked Improvement Community (NIC). The initiative of this group is aimed at increasing the diversity of the nation’s teacher candidate pool by focusing on recruitment of more Black […]
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