Recruit and prepare teachers of color through scholarships, Grow Your Own grants, bias-free licensure, partnerships, and leadership pipelines¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief's Goals 3 and 4 lay out recruitment and preparation strategies: invest in scholarship and loan forgiveness programs attracting students of color; adopt program approval standards that compel programs to recruit and graduate candidates of color; interrogate licensure policies for racial bias; fund Grow Your Own (GYO) programs; provide anti-bias training for hiring managers; invest in district-preparation program partnerships for targeted hiring; and diversify leadership pipelines. The brief argues states "must create the right policy conditions to support educator preparation programs, districts, and schools in their efforts to prepare, recruit, and retain teachers of color."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• State-level funding and guidance to districts and preparation programs, plus policy conditions such as program approval standards and licensure review

Constraints¶

• The brief finds Tennessee does not invest in programs preparing high numbers of candidates of color, including minority serving institutions, and does not invest in teacher academies or dual-enrollment programming to promote teaching to a racially diverse student population

Target Learners¶

• students of color considering teaching careers
• teacher candidates of color

Target Learning Goals¶

• diversifying the educator workforce through recruitment and preparation

Claims¶

Related Strategies¶

• Fund Grow Your Own programs to recruit more candidates of color than traditional educator preparation programs attract

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Educator Diversity State Profile: Tennessee. (2020). EdTrust. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED622856