Build an after-school/OST-to-teaching pipeline to recruit teachers of color¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief identifies an underutilized strategy: "recruit and prepare those who have experience working in after-school or out-of-school time (OST) programs to enter the teaching profession." It proposes three ways: establish recruitment relationships between nontraditional preparation programs and OST providers (including Grow Your Own programs); increase scholarships, loan forgiveness, and tuition reimbursements for candidates with OST experience, focusing on candidates of color; and adopt statewide guidelines supporting nontraditional pathways with licensure test preparation and at least one year of mentor support before participants teach as teachers of record.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• States must both increase targeted recruitment of after-school/OST staff and structure programming to draw on this group's experiences during preparation

Constraints¶

• The brief calls this pipeline "potentially high-leverage" but underutilized; Louisiana currently does not invest in scholarships or loan forgiveness to attract students of color into preparation programs

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students, particularly students of color who benefit from a diverse teacher workforce

Target Learning Goals¶

• Increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce

Related Strategies¶

• Six state-level strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce
• Build a diverse teacher pipeline through Grow Your Own grants, teacher academies, scholarships, MSI investment, and residency pathways
• Grow-your-own teacher training programs targeting community members facing certification and career-change barriers
• Grow-your-own and recruitment initiatives: alternative programs, Minority Serving Institutions, high-school pipeline programs, and district human-capital efforts to diversify the teacher workforce.
• Use Teacher Residency Grant Program funds, braided with other sources, to recruit and retain a diverse teaching workforce
• Build high-retention, supportive pathways into teaching for candidates of color
• Build an after-school/out-of-school-time pipeline into teaching to diversify the teacher workforce
• Multi-pronged state investments to diversify and retain the educator workforce

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Educator Diversity State Profile: Louisiana. (2022). EdTrust. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED622849