Culturally Responsive Teacher Development Partnership in Community Empowerment Sustainable Teacher of Color Pipeline

Program Benefits

  • A new model for education w/ community focus
  • Excellent training for service in local areas
  • Established connection with local communities
  • Racial and Cultural Consciousness
  • Two community summer interns
  • Senior year scholarship for education concentration
  • Guaranteed district job and community placement
  • Guaranteed allocation of 10% of worktime in community advocacy work
Program Benefits

Steps for Success

Step One

First and second year
recruitment into the TEECH program

Step Two

Focus on two summer community-advocacy practicums focused on justice

Step Three

Summer curriculum that immerses pedagogy theory, research on justice

Step Four

Fund final year of undergrad, during which TEECHers become credentialed

Step Five

Get TEECHers hired in areas that serve the demographic of their community work

Step Six

Engage TEECHers in ongoing 'Communities of Practice' on structural inequality

IMPACT ON STUDENTS

  • Minoritized students will have higher grades and academic performance
  • Minoritized students will be equally represented in advanced classes
  • Minoritized students will not be over-disciplined
  • Students will feel more at home and less isolated
  • Students will feel that their unique histories are represented in what they learn.
  • Students will be less likely to disengage from and pushed out of school
  • Safety from trauma and violence

Culturally Responsive Teacher Development

How the School System Currently Works

If schools continue to dictate the place, purposes, and methods of education absent community perspectives, can we develop the students and societies we desire?

Education is top-down and hierarchical
Power to define/decide rests in schools
Educators disconnected from community
Community must assimilate to school culture
Teaching and administrative staffs
not diverse
Educators want change,
but don’t know how
Those who need the most get the least
Communities rarely experience local change

Addressing the Current Problems

Partnership in Community Empowerment

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

  • Schools become community advocates
  • Community transformation gains powerful “official” school-based support
  • Community-based issues in schools
  • Power shifts to community leaders and residents
  • Teachers committed to community self-determination and economic independence
  • Decreased violence toward children in schools

Sustainable Teacher of Color Pipeline

A new kind of TEECHer

We start by developing teachers as agents for community justice and change, advocacy, and empowerment.