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A weekly meetup aims to keep black male teachers in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Black teachers account for 27 percent of the state’s teacher workforce, according to a Mississippi Today report, but black students represent almost half of the students attending the state’s public schools. Research shows that teachers stay in the classroom when they feel supported,” Maye said.

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I Spent Years Hiding Parts of My Identity When Students Really Needed Me to Embrace My Whole Self

ED Surge

If you want to feel the soul of a city, go into one of its public school classrooms. Most often, it is my ethnic identity that is imposed on me by the majority culture, and usually at the expense of my identity as a disabled person. I understood this intimately during my time student teaching on the East Coast in Boston.

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

ED Surge

While teacher pipeline programs such as TFA attempt to solve the teacher shortage in the short-term by guaranteeing schools a renewable resource in the form of new, freshly graduated teachers, retention issues remain. For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

Columbia Public Schools teachers Brandy Ahrens, Elly Eckhoff and Heather Smith are intent as facilitator Kim Nuetzmann explains the three topic areas in which the veteran teachers were being asked for input: cooperating teacher support, teacher candidates and enhancing the partnership between PK-12 and higher education. It was the No.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

The program recruits college-age people of color, particularly African American men, and pays them stipends to work in schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. At Wilson, like many of New Orleans public schools, most of the students are black — and it was Albert’s personal mission to reach each of them.

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For ed-tech success, why schools use technology is just as important as how

The Hechinger Report

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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Why Do So Few Black Men Become Teachers?

ED Surge

To begin to answer this question, EdSurge recently spoke with Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, a prominent teacher pipeline that pushes for greater educator diversity in public schools, and Meheret Woldeyohannes, the director of external affairs for that organization.

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