DEW Collaborative: Implications, Acknowledgements, & Appendices
Implications for Future Work
Our landscape mapping process sheds light upon the varied and substantial efforts already underway across New England to increase the racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity of the educator workforce. This snapshot strives to provide a starting point for educators, school and district leaders, higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, community partners, policy makers, and state education agencies to take stock of the unique opportunities and challenges for the region. By systematically documenting what is, and is not, already happening with efforts to diversify the educator workforce, the DEW Collaborative hopes to position the region to build the structures, systems, and policies that can cultivate an interest in the teaching profession, ensure educators are well prepared and licensed, recruit and hire without bias, and retain and promote teachers and administrators. We hope the data captured in this snapshot serves as a germinator for reflection that both inspires new ideas and strategies and offers potential areas for growth and expansion.
In this spirit, we offer the following questions as possible seeds for future conversations about practices, partnerships, resources, policies, and data we believe are needed to create and sustain system-level change:
PRACTICES
What practices can or must we implement to successfully diversify our workforce? What can we learn from other organizations?
PARTNERSHIPS
What types of partnerships and collaborations does your state, community, district, or school need to create or sustain to increase the diversity of the educator workforce?
RESOURCES
To what extent have commitments to diversifying the educator workforce been translated into financial, time, and human resource allocations to implement and sustain the commitment?
POLICY
What policies can you advance and enact in your district or state to ensure that diversifying the educator workforce becomes a priority?
DATA MONITORING
What data would be most helpful for schools, districts, or states to track and publish to better understand progress toward building a more diverse educator workforce?
EXISTING EFFORTS
How can current efforts to address educational equity happening in schools, districts, and initiatives connect to and help support the need to diversify the educator workforce?
SYSTEMS CHANGE
How is your state, community, district, school, organization, or institute of higher education addressing efforts to diversify the educator workforce with an eye toward systemic solutions that go beyond short-lived initiatives or the passion and energy of sole champions?
FEDERAL FUNDING
How is your district ensuring that it is using its allocation of federal funds such as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding to invest in strategies that will diversify its educator workforce?
Acknowledgements
The DEW Collaborative would like to thank the members of the Task Force on Diversifying the Educator Workforce and our state education agency partners for continuing to share their time and expertise through the completion of this landscape mapping. The landscape mapping work was not easy. It required rigorous research, leveraging existing relationships, and building new relationships. We are indebted to the many education and community leaders across the region who answered our call for information and insights. Their perspectives and connections made possible the arduous job of documenting the wide range of currently-active programs, initiatives, partnerships, and organizations in New England working to build a diverse educator workforce. This report would not have been possible without the support of our funder, the Barr Foundation.
The following members of the Great Schools Partnership conducted this research and prepared this report:
Glennys Sánchez, Senior Associate
Hayley Didriksen, Director of Research and Evaluation
Christina Horner, Senior Associate
Don Weafer, Senior Associate
David Ruff, Executive Director
Mark Kostin, Associate Director
Sarah Linet, Policy Specialist
Gwen Merrick, Project Specialist
Appendices
Landscape Mapping Definitions
Landscape Mapping Program List
Summary of Activities and Strategies
Regional Policy Summary
Data Availability Snapshot
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