Build a diverse teacher pipeline through Grow Your Own grants, teacher academies, scholarships, MSI investment, and residency pathways¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief's Goal 3 and Goal 4 criteria enumerate pipeline strategies states should fund: scholarships and loan forgiveness targeting students of color, rigorous program approval standards, investment in minority serving institutions, Grow Your Own (GYO) programs, teacher academies and dual enrollment, district-preparation-program partnerships, and diversifying leadership pipelines. Massachusetts "provides competitive grants to districts to build out Grow Your Own programming" and "invests in the InSPIRED Fellowship that focuses on the recruitment of high school students into the teaching profession," but lacks scholarships, MSI investment, and residency pathways.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• State-level funding, guidance, and public support for the pipeline programs

Constraints¶

• The brief states recruitment efforts are compromised when districts and schools have difficulty retaining teachers of color

Target Learners¶

• High school students, paraprofessionals, and candidates of color entering teaching

Target Learning Goals¶

• Recruiting and preparing teachers of color

Affordances¶

• Five Goal Educator Diversity Policy Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Build an after-school/OST-to-teaching pipeline to recruit teachers of color
• Build an after-school/out-of-school-time pipeline into teaching to diversify the teacher workforce
• Invest in recruiting and retaining a diverse, EL-qualified educator workforce through bilingual teaching pathways
• Develop high-retention pathways — Grow Your Own programs and teacher residencies — to build and diversify local teacher supply
• Design service scholarships that cover a substantial portion of preparation costs, with stable multiyear funding and linked data systems
• Build high-retention, supportive pathways into teaching for candidates of color
• Offer targeted service scholarships, loan forgiveness, and 1-year postbaccalaureate residency programs to rapidly expand the supply of well-prepared teachers in shortage fields and locations
• 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.
• Establish high-retention preparation pathways—residencies, Grow Your Own models, service scholarships, and mentoring/induction—to stem turnover in high-need subjects and schools
• Sustain and expand residency pathways through maintained state grant funding, financial aid, apprenticeship structures, and technical assistance
• Deploy service scholarships, loan forgiveness, and teacher residencies to staff high-need fields and schools
• Diversify the educator workforce through Grow Your Own programs, scholarships, and retention supports
• Build diverse school leader pipelines through HBCU/HSI preparation partnerships, transparent diversity data, equitable hiring supports, affinity networks, and Grow Your Own teacher pathways
• Retain teachers of color through leadership pipelines, multi-year induction and mentoring, and culturally responsive school climates
• Six state-level strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce
• Multi-pronged state investments to diversify and retain the educator workforce
• Strengthen teacher pipelines and remove biased promotion barriers to build the principal pipeline
• Fund Grow Your Own programs to recruit more candidates of color than traditional educator preparation programs attract
• Deploy a portfolio of research-based strategies — service scholarships, residencies, Grow Your Own programs, mentoring and induction, and compensation reform — to strengthen the teacher pipeline
• Support teacher residency programs, which are associated with higher retention rates for teachers of color

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Education Trust. (2020). Educator Diversity State Profile: Massachusetts. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED622850