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MenTeach E-News - December 2020
MenTeach E-News
December 2020
1) Black man named Texas Teacher of the Year for first time: 'I'm not the first to deserve it'
2) Number of male school teachers in Bolton [England] drops
3) Number of male teachers in England drops
4) Do we really need teachers to be male role models?
5) Alabama A&M incentivizes future male minority teachers with 2 years tuition
6) Anti-Racist Educators in Texas are Building a Movement. It's Time for Our Colleagues to Get on Board
December 2020
1) Black man named Texas Teacher of the Year for first time: 'I'm not the first to deserve it'
2) Number of male school teachers in Bolton [England] drops
3) Number of male teachers in England drops
4) Do we really need teachers to be male role models?
5) Alabama A&M incentivizes future male minority teachers with 2 years tuition
6) Anti-Racist Educators in Texas are Building a Movement. It's Time for Our Colleagues to Get on Board
Lack of Black male teachers in Baton Rouge, LA can negatively affect Black male students
Anthony Felder walked into his freshman year at LSU with aspirations of becoming a pediatric physical therapist. But during that year, Felder had an epiphany.
“I realized the only reason I wanted to be a pediatric physical therapist was because I wanted to teach kids how to use their limbs again,” Felder said.
The opportunity to learn how to become an educator came later during his freshman year.
“I realized the only reason I wanted to be a pediatric physical therapist was because I wanted to teach kids how to use their limbs again,” Felder said.
The opportunity to learn how to become an educator came later during his freshman year.
New Hiring Initiative Aims To Increase Presence Of Black Male Educators In Dallas ISD
As part of an initiative aimed at recruiting teachers who represent the students they serve, Dallas ISD has hired 13 Black male professionals and put them on the path toward becoming licensed teachers who will lead classrooms next semester.
The Adjunct Teacher Dallas Residency Program is designed to recruit Black male teachers to serve in high-priority campuses.
The Adjunct Teacher Dallas Residency Program is designed to recruit Black male teachers to serve in high-priority campuses.
Anti-Racist Educators in Texas are Building a Movement. It’s Time for Our Colleagues to Get on Board
I’ll never forget the moment when a fellow teacher, a white colleague I had worked with for years, got in my face and told me that I didn’t care about a Black male student. She did this in front of my entire class, in MY classroom.I’ll never forget how powerless I felt in that moment, and the anger that followed.
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The Storyteller Begat the Teacher Who Begat the Writer
His former students will tell you that Frank McCourt, who died Sunday, was too attuned to the false note ever to declare, once he had become a huge success as an author, that he missed teaching high school. Even so, he spent three decades as a teacher of English and creative writing in New York City's public schools. And he was the first to say that those years, while depriving him of the time actually to write, were what made a writer out of him. He had long been retired by 1996, when his first book, "Angela's Ashes," was published.
