69.039 - Portraits of Critical Alternative Teacher Development: Framing Teacher Development for Community, Justice, and Visionaries

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Ensuring a racially diverse and culturally responsive teacher workforce is a concrete and targeted way to attack persistent educational inequality (The Albert Shanker Institute, 2016). While critiques of alternative teacher preparation are important and necessary, we need a vision of what critical alternative teacher development can look like, not just a picture of what it is not. To address this need, this session panel features four alternative teacher development programs committed to supporting Teachers of Color via local community recruitment models, the development of migrant bilingual pipelines, the design of critical race professional development models, and teacher testimony groups. Taken as a whole, these programs offer the field a vision for what justice work can be.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 4: Multicultural, Inclusive, and Social Justice Frameworks for Teaching and Teacher Education in PK-16+ Settings

Chair

• Conra D. Gist, University of Arkansas

Papers

• Combating Cultural Isolation and Revolving Doors: Creating Place-Based Supports for Teachers of Color - Rachelle Lanette Rogers-Ard, Oakland Unified School District

• Cultivating Teachers of Color as Change Agents: A Model of Critical Race Professional Development - Josephine Pham, University of California - Los Angeles; Rita Kohli, University of California - Riverside

• Grow Your Own Illinois: Creating Teachers and Community Leaders - Katherine Van Winkle, GYO Illinois

• Migrant Teachers: A Pipeline for Growing Your Own Bilingual and Bicultural Teachers - Reyes L. Quezada, University of San Diego

Discussant

• Ana Maria Villegas, Montclair State University