Dismantling Racial Inequities in Teaching: How to Transform Policy Around Teacher Recruitment and Retention

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session focuses on how current teacher workforce policies perpetuate educational inequities, especially racial and ethnic inequities, for both teachers and students. First, the symposium will begin with research panelists using national data to illustrate the current state of the teacher workforce, with a specific focus on recruitment and retention of teachers of color and the inequitable distribution of credentialed and experienced teachers across schools. Then, the policy discussants will focus on outlining transformative policies at the local, state, and federal level that are needed to build and maintain a well-supported and racially diverse teacher workforce and to ensure equitable access to those teachers.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 06:Transformations in Teacher Education Policies, Research, and Practices

Chair

• Emma García, Learning Policy Institute

Papers

• The State of Teacher Diversity - Desiree Carver-Thomas, Learning Policy Institute; Emma García, Learning Policy Institute; Melanie Leung-Gagné, Learning Policy Institute

• Teacher Financial Strains: The Burdens of Student Debt - Wesley Wei, Learning Policy Institute; Emma García, Learning Policy Institute

• Teacher Staffing Challenges and the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers - Melanie Leung-Gagné, Learning Policy Institute; Susan Kemper Patrick, Learning Policy Institute; Marguerite Franco, Learning Policy Institute; Tiffany S. Tan, Learning Policy Institute

Discussants

• Laura Boyce, TeachPlus PA

• Kaitlyn M. Brennan, University of Pittsburgh