Boston Teacher Residency Male Educators of Color Network

• In Event: Reframing Race and Gender: Perspectives on Black Male Achievement

Abstract

Given ongoing efforts to recruit male teachers of color, with the realization that teachers in this sub-group exhibit high rates of turnover when compared to their colleagues, we designed a monthly professional development initiative for male teachers of color in the Boston Teacher Residency pipeline. Specifically, the group’s purpose was to provide socio-emotional support to male teachers of color and a space to reflect on practice - in service of student learning. In so doing, we underscore the reality that teachers, in our case male teachers of color, can create professional development opportunities to meet their unique needs.

Authors

• Travis Bristol, Stanford University

• Gregory Benoit

• Zerisenai Sahle