Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Decades of research have indicated the positive impact of Indigenous teachers and teachers of Color on student learning and social and emotional development, particularly for Students of Color and Indigenous Students. Inspired by the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, this Division K Vice-Presidential session explore the problematics and addresses remedies for the underrepresentation of Indigenous teachers and teachers of Color underrepresentation in public schools across the US.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Travis J. Bristol, University of California - Berkeley

Participants

• Jessica Martell, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Josephine Pham, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Rita Kohli, University of California - Riverside

• Felicia Moore Mensah, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, Sonoma State University

Discussant

• Conra D. Gist, University of Houston