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Situating Gender and Race in Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Implications for Sustaining Agency

Mon, April 20, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

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This session grows from the foundation of valuing and honoring the voices of teachers, particularly marginalized voices, and applies this practice to one particular, pressing issue facing the field of education: the recruitment and retention of quality educators for our next generation of students. Through a focus on teachers’ lives and voices, these four papers offer critically important perspectives of Teachers of Color and gender-minority teachers on their own lives and careers. Each paper uses voice as a vehicle to construct ways in which change agents can leverage policy and programmatic structure, while continuing to foster agency for teachers. Taken together, these set of papers highlights often-marginalized voices in advancing the conversation around teacher career development.

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