Grow-Your-Own Programs: Identifying Design Approaches for Remedy and Repair in Teacher Development Systems

• In Event: Empowering Educators and Youth of Color: Culturally Sustaining Pathways in Education

Abstract

One approach to remedy ineffective educator preparation programs and renew teacher development systems is the design and implementation of research-based grow your own (GYO) programs. This is because research indicates GYO programs can be used to: address teacher shortages; increase ethnoracial, cultural and linguistic diversity in the educator workforce; work to stabilize teacher retention by locally developing teachers; and enhance programs by infusing culturally sustaining pedagogies and local knowledge systems that build on the strengths of teacher candidates (Author, 2019; Garcia, 2020; Valenzuela, 2017). With this in mind, this research paper explores the practices of research-based GYO programs to identify approaches to remedy and repair educator preparation programs that marginalize Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers in teacher development systems.

Authors

• Diana Gonzales Worthen, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

• Eva I. Diaz, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

• Conra D. Gist, University of Houston

• Sandra Gaye Bowman, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

• Christine Smart, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

• Laura K.M. Herold, University of Arkansas