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A Wicked Problem: Diversifying California's Teacher Workforce

Thu, April 21, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (11:30am to 1:00pm PDT), San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Session Type: Roundtable Session

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Diversifying California’s teacher workforce is a wicked problem. Wicked problems are ill-defined, complex, and have tangled, intersecting root-causes that require several resolutions instead of a single solution (Rittel & Webber, 1973; Glasser, 2019). This issue is sustained through the state’s massive educator pipeline, a complex, interlocking system of processes and institutions bound together by ever-evolving policy, practice, and ideology. Issues preventing equitable outcomes for individuals of color exist in and across all pipeline structures and entities making a single-pronged approach all but impossible. This symposium will explore how various aspects of the educator pipeline inhibit California’s efforts to recruit, prepare, and support a diverse K-12 workforce. Multiple resolutions will be shared.

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