ERIC Number: ED629175
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Apr
Pages: 12
Abstractor: ERIC
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Grow Your Own Educator Programs -- Special Edition: A Roadmap to a Community-Based, Partnership Approach
Valenzuela, Angela
Equity Assistance Center Region II, Intercultural Development Research Association
Grow Your Own (GYO) educator programs are a potential strategy for districts and universities to employ to help recruit and retain teachers of color. When designed within an asset-based framework, they emphasize equitable approaches and critical perspectives that combine the powerful roles of "homegrown" teachers, culturally-relevant curriculum, and social justice pedagogy in addressing achievement and opportunity gaps, especially for the nation's woefully underserved, largely urban, students of color (e.g., Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005; Sanders & Rivers, 1996). This special edition on strategies highlights a grow-your-own-educator program involving a community-based partnership with a local school district to carry out the work of a Saturday academy for fourth- and fifth-graders.
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Minority Group Teachers, Student Recruitment, School Districts, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Minority Group Students, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Educational Finance, Program Development, Administrator Role, After School Programs, College Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Educational Strategies, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Equity Assistance Center Region II. Available from: Intercultural Development Research Association. 5815 Callaghan Road Suite 101, San Antonio, Texas 78228. Tel: 210-444-1710; Fax: 210-444-1714; e-mail: feedback@idra.org; Web site: http://www.idra.org
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education (ED)
Authoring Institution: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
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