1. Best Practices for Supporting Our Teacher and Administrator Pipeline
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2. Which is important? Racially & ethnically diverse: a) Teaching force
b) Leadership
c) Both
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3. Benefits to Students Preparation to become global citizens
Role models and cultural brokers for children of color
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4. The Numbers 50% 78% 17% 38% Students of Color Teachers of Color
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5. Administrators of color
Leadership
Administrators of color
22%
38%
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6. Best Practices
Differentiated support and mentoring for teachers and leaders of color
Teacher preparation programs and philanthropic foundations MUST invest in teacher and leader diversity
Innovative programming and alternate pathways for teachers and leaders
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7. Policy Recommendations
Reform teacher preparation in ways that produce greater numbers of effective teachers
Develop models and frameworks for teaching in high-need schools
Maintain high levels of job performance
Address conditions in urban, hard-to-staff schools that compromise the effectiveness and retention of teachers of color
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8. What Can We Do?
Continue to advocate for a more representative teaching and leadership workforce in our schools
Create a mentoring program for Asian American Pacific Islander teachers and leaders
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9. Next Steps
Take the survey to apply to be a part of the inaugural mentoring cohort in order to foster an AAPI educational pipeline!
Survey link
Explain that APALI CLP project will assist with the creation of a mentoring intiative
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