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Florida College creates $300,000 minority teacher program
Five students from St. Johns River Community College will be the first in the state to participate in a new scholarship program created to recruit, educate and place minority male teachers into elementary school classrooms. “Call Me MISTER,” which stands for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models, is an adapted version of the teacher […]
Read MoreSymposium aims to engage young, black male demographic
They’re underrepresented in high school graduation ceremonies and college classrooms. Their numbers are disproportionately high in prisons. The statistics seem stacked against young, black men, but a group of advocates and academics came together today to develop a community-focused road map to success for the at-risk demographic. The Jacksonville Community Engagement Group sponsored the symposium, […]
Read MorePaid Summer Internship to teach for high school and college students
Breakthrough Saint Paul (and other major cities) are looking for a diverse group of talented undergraduate and high school students (juniors/seniors) to teach and lead at an innovative academic summer program for high-potential, under-resourced middle school students in Saint Paul. Breakthrough provides paid summer internships, complete with training and classroom teaching experience. The deadline is […]
Read MoreDon’t stand so close to me
Remember the Police ballad of the 1980s – Don’t Stand So Close to Me? It was written by Sting, the band’s lead singer, who at one time was employed as a teacher. Well, if Sting were going to do an updated 2006 version, he could call it something like, “Don’t Come Into My Classroom Alone […]
Read MoreJohn Suur: A caring man to the rescue!
My latest escapade with disaster relief was last week in Marietta, Georgia, in an American Red Cross shelter at the Cobb Civic Center. The Center, which normally is a basketball, etc., arena, had a capacity for about 400 cots. When we arrived there were about 250 people living there, and when we left the […]
Read MoreBalance sought in elementary schools staffed almost completely by women
Student masterpieces hang on a string along the ceiling of a Camarillo classroom, colorful posters of block letters and numbers fill the walls, and a drove of stuffed sea creatures lie on top of a kid-sized bookcase. They’re typical finds in a kindergarten classroom, but this room at University Preparation School also has something a […]
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