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"Grow Your Own" Programs: Examining Potential and Pitfalls for a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Community Teachers
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Gist, Conra D. – National Education Policy Center, 2022
Grow your own (GYO) programs are designed to recruit, prepare, and place community members as teachers in local schools. They do this through partnerships between educator preparation programs, school districts or local educational agencies, and community-based organizations. The nation is currently seeing new and thoughtful uses of the approach.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Minority Group Teachers, African American Teachers, Indigenous Personnel
Back to Basics: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Special Education
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Lavín, Carlos E.; Jordan, Adam W.; Francis, Grace L. – High School Journal, 2021
While the student population in public education is becoming more diverse, the representation of teachers of color remains low. With over half the student population in the United States considered as non-white, and only 20% of teachers identifying as teachers of color, it is imperative to examine the ways in which education professionals are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education
Indigenous Content in Curriculum: The Challenge
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Wilson, Penny – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2020
Canada has legions of strong Indigenous voices, yet our educational system fails many of our Indigenous students. A comparison of Metis, First Nations and Inuit high school graduation rates to non-Indigenous students in Manitoba shows significant disparity. Reasons for leaving school are complex, and disengagement with education can generate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Dropouts
Mentoring Partnerships for Minority Faculty and Graduate Students in Mental Health Services Research
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Waitzkin, Howard; Yager, Joel; Parker, Tassy; Duran, Bonnie – Academic Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: The authors developed mentorship programs to train minority junior faculty and advanced graduate students in mental health services research. Method: The programs target "mentees" in the Southwest United States and offer long-term mentoring, seminars, group supervision, seed funding for peer reviewed research proposals, peer…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Mentors, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health
South Carolina Center For Teacher Recruitment: 94-95 Annual Report.
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South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment, Rock Hill. – 1995
This publication reports on the 1994-95 activities of the South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment including the status of programs, mission, goals and budget for the next year. The Center was established in 1985 and has become a national model for teacher recruitment. Its most widely known programs are: Minority Recruitment, Crossroads…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Teachers, Program Descriptions
A Place where People Care: A Case Study of Recruitment and Retention of Minority-Group Teachers
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Robinson, Jennifer J.; Paccione, Angela; Rodrigue, Fred – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2003
The need to increase the racial/ethnic diversity of the U.S. teaching force has been reported widely. This article documents the programs and practices implemented at one university to recruit and retain minority students in the teacher preparation program through the Teacher Education Advocacy Center (TEAC). The goals of the Center are to enhance…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Program Development, Minority Groups, Teacher Education Programs