Building the Black Male Educators’ Pipeline
- Author(s):
- Watson, Jamila; Rochkind, Jonathan
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Source:
- ETS Policy Notes, v22 n1, Spring 2022
- Document Type:
- Periodical
- Page Count:
- 10
- Subject/Key Words:
- African American Students, Black Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Retention, Lowery, Lillian M., Nettles, Michael T., Gordon, E. Wyatt, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Professional Development
Abstract
To examine the core factors that may account for the underrepresentation of Black male teachers, ETS’s Policy Evaluation & Research Center (PERC) and the ETS Praxis program co-convened two virtual seminars in partnership with The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, The National Urban League, The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, and the Western Pennsylvania Consortium of Educators with the Black Male Teachers Initiative: Building the Black Male Educators’ Pipeline Through Effective Recruitment (January 26, 2021) and Structures for Success: Supporting, Developing and Retaining Black Male Educators (May 19, 2021). By assembling participants from school districts, nonprofits, colleges and universities, government agencies, and faith-based organizations already engaged in developing solutions, the seminars created opportunities to share information, ideas, policies, and practices for reversing the alarming shortage of Black male teachers in the nation’s K–12 schools.