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Alberta, Canada facing shortage of male teachers in rural areas
At a time when most other provinces face declining school enrolment, Alberta stands out. “A Transformation in Progress,” Alberta Education’s 2011 “snapshot” of teacher and student demographics, projected Alberta’s student population will increase by 150,000 over the next 14 years. The report estimated the province will need an an additional 9,000 full-time equivalent teachers to […]
Read MoreGo Teach, Young Man: Tweaking Risk and Reward to Recruit Male Teachers
How do we attract more top-performing male teachers to the profession, and what role does compensation play? EdWeek recently published an op-ed, Rethinking Teacher Compensation, by Laura Overdeck, Arthur Levine, and Christopher Daggett. The authors argue that states should reallocate compensation funding away from “backloaded” plans such as defined-benefit pensions, and toward earlier-career perks like […]
Read MoreHere’s what male teachers of color want their districts to know about them
A passion for teaching and learning is what drew Archie Moss to a career in education. But the Memphis principal recalls how he almost left the profession when he found himself increasingly tasked as a disciplinarian. One of the few black male teachers in his former school in Charlotte, N.C., Moss had just been tapped […]
Read MoreMale Teacher Initiative – Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s teachers
Nearly one quarter, 24% of Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers (TSTT) students are male. We are collaborating with schools in New York City and Rochester City to expand our Male Teacher of Color Initiative to increase the number of male teachers and improve the academic outcomes of high school students and college graduation rates among students […]
Read MoreBlack men teachers inspiring hope
Stephen Flemming is one teacher in one classroom, but he may be doing as much to keep his low-income black students in school – black males in particular – as any formal program targeted toward “at-risk” students. Flemming teaches English language arts to 5th graders at John B. Kelly Elementary School in Germantown. All but […]
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