Teachers of color in focus groups report five workforce challenges: antagonistic culture, feeling undervalued, deprived agency and autonomy, unfavorable working conditions, and high personal costs¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2024: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Focus groups with 88 Black and Latino teachers across five states surfaced five challenges: antagonistic work culture, feeling undervalued, deprivation of agency and autonomy, unfavorable working conditions, and the high financial and psychological cost of being a teacher of color. → Davis Dixon 2019

Evidence¶

Davis Dixon 2019¶

Davis Dixon, Ashley Griffin, and Mark Teoh. (2019). If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How to Disrupt Teacher Turnover. The Education Trust & Teach Plus. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED603193 doi:10.3102/1445541

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Qualitative focus groups led by Teach Plus Policy Fellows with 88 teachers who identify as Black or Latino across five states; the report states "five challenges emerged that teachers of color face in the workforce," beginning with an antagonistic work culture leaving them feeling "unwelcome and/or invisible."

"For the focus groups, five challenges emerged that teachers of color face in the workforce: 1) They experience an antagonistic work culture that leaves them feeling unwelcome and/or invisible."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Teacher-student racial and cultural match is associated with benefits for students of color and all P-12 students — related
Teachers of color face retention pressures including placement in high-poverty schools, pigeonholing into race-based roles, undervalued ideas, and an unrecognized invisible tax of extra duties. — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
Louisiana teachers of color report working conditions, not salary, as primary reasons for leaving high-need schools — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
Black students experience a more hostile campus racial climate than other students of color in schools — related

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