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Path to a new life takes these minority high school graduates back to preschool
Sekani Malcolm was serving coffee and pastries at Dunkin’ Donuts last month, a 20-year-old high school graduate with no plans to go to college and few aspirations for a solid career. He had struggled in school, where he sometimes found trouble, and he was working the part-time job to help support his 3-month-old daughter. Like […]
Read MoreBecome an Urban Teacher
Why Urban Teachers?’ Among other things, we have a 14-month residency as part of our master’s curriculum from Johns Hopkins University. This allows you to observe and teach in the classroom before you become a teacher of record. You’ll also benefit from three years of teacher placement and one-on-one coaching. Round that out with a […]
Read MoreKellogg Foundation Awards CSUN Grant to Tackle California’s Teacher Shortage – MenTeach lead consultant
California faces a looming teacher shortage, and, in particular, a deficit in the number of men interested in working in elementary education. Hoping to help alleviate the problem, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded California State University, Northridge a $385,651, three-year grant for a teacher-preparation project aimed at increasing the number of men — particularly […]
Read MoreMenTeach has had millions of hits
MenTeach: A few readers have asked how much web traffic does our site have. MenTeach.org has been around since April 2002. We’ve had one revision of our site back starting February 2007. You’ll see below that we’ve had over 2.4 millions hits in the last two years. The software that tracks our site traffic screens […]
Read MoreNew Zealand: Women left holding the baby
Women today can do any job, so why do we still see large numbers of women workers in childcare kindergarten and other early childhood services? Answers to this question usually go along the lines of: “it’s a job that women are best suited to” and “what man would want to work with children anyway?” Diversity […]
Read MoreEditorial: The List Maker
Every year around the Christmas holiday when I hear the words to this famous carol, “making a list, checking it twice” I smile to myself. You see, I consider myself the queen of lists because I carefully create and re-create lists daily. Are you a list maker? Did you know that there are many reasons […]
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