A racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse educator workforce (DEW) is vital to improving learning for all students.
“TNTP revealed that in 97% of school districts nationally and in every state, the percentage of students of color exceeds the percentage of teachers of color.” Even if you consider your school or district to be diverse, you still need to maintain healthy retention practices to keep it that way.
Recruiting, hiring and retaining are critical steps to increasing the diversity of our education workforce. All of these pieces are important at the same time. Which do you need to prioritize now? How do you do this? Come to our workshop and find out.
Attendees at this workshop will learn new or expand their understanding of known strategies to intentionally and proactively recruit, hire, and retain a diverse educator workforce, hear stories, and have an opportunity to apply their new learning during the session. We encourage teams to attend to create the space to make their plans more actionable.
Participants will:
- Explore action oriented steps to promote individualized development of hiring processes (application, screening, interview, and job offer experiences)
- Spend time considering ways to implement an action plan for immediate use in practice
- Consider strategies for creating a roadmap to build your DEW coalition
- Collaborate with other session participants to elevate best practices from current work
For more DEW-related content that will help you build and maintain a diverse education workforce in your school community, check out our
webpage and
podcast.
