Racialized Ties and Turnover: Examining the Advice Networks of Teachers of Color

• In Event: Teacher Professional Development, Career Advancement, and Advice Seeking

Abstract

A critical factor for creating the conditions that make math professional learning communities (PLCs) promising spaces for advancing math instructional improvement is the advice-seeking behaviors among its PLC members. In this paper, we use quantitative social network analysis and comparative case studies to examine the advice-seeking patterns and turnover of TOC in Algebra I PLCs in four high-poverty schools across two years. Understanding the advice networks of TOC is particularly important as a path to repairing past harms in education systems, as it provides insights into how formalized school structures support instructional improvement and teacher retention.

Authors

• Janet Solis Rodriguez, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Huriya Jabbar, University of Southern California

• Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of Texas at Austin

• Ashli Duncan, University of Texas at Austin

• Chandel Burgess, University of Texas at Austin

• Michael Grigsby, University of Southern California