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Post Your Evidence of the Most effective Leadership Outcome
From the reflections of the week, what has been the most effective example of leadership actions demonstrated in the field this week and Why?
What standard(s) and element(s) most highly correlated with the actions described?
An issue that needs to be explored a little more is how to attract more so-called minorities to the field of education. Last year, President Obama sent his Secretary of Education, Mr. Arne Duncan, down to Georgia to get a feel on what some successful school systems like Gwinnett are doing differently that makes them so successful (evidently, few people know that GCPS ranks 47th among graduating its African American males). After he left Meadowcreek High in Gwinnett, he participated in a panel discussion at Morehouse College that centered on attracting Black men to the field of education. Of about 500 graduates of the class of 2011, only six were leaving with degrees in education. The situation is stark. I am one of TWO Black male teachers in my school of a staff that boasts roughly 150, and I was the ONLY Black male in my Masters degree program. Not only do we need to support African-American teacher-ed students a little more, but we need to figure out a way to encourage more to enter the field of Education and provide them with enough support to ensure they won't eventually drop out of the program once. Many, like several of my friends, drop out once they find out a career in education is not financially rewarding, the possibility of achieving materialistic goals is bleak,and the stress-level and workload is high. I think school systems who employ young African-American and Hispanic teachers should utilize them as task forces to return back to their alma maters and other college campuses on job-fair days and help recruit. Give them paid time off and reimbursement for travel expences, of course :)
Minority teacher recruitment task force is just one solution I propose. I found the AJC article of Mr. Duncan's Georgia trip. I cut it out the newspaper and have it stuck somewhere... http://www.ajc.com/news/duncan-calls-on-black-822680.html
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An issue that needs to be explored a little more is how to attract more so-called minorities to the field of education. Last year, President Obama sent his Secretary of Education, Mr. Arne Duncan, down to Georgia to get a feel on what some successful school systems like Gwinnett are doing differently that makes them so successful (evidently, few people know that GCPS ranks 47th among graduating its African American males). After he left Meadowcreek High in Gwinnett, he participated in a panel discussion at Morehouse College that centered on attracting Black men to the field of education. Of about 500 graduates of the class of 2011, only six were leaving with degrees in education.
The situation is stark. I am one of TWO Black male teachers in my school of a staff that boasts roughly 150, and I was the ONLY Black male in my Masters degree program. Not only do we need to support African-American teacher-ed students a little more, but we need to figure out a way to encourage more to enter the field of Education and provide them with enough support to ensure they won't eventually drop out of the program once. Many, like several of my friends, drop out once they find out a career in education is not financially rewarding, the possibility of achieving materialistic goals is bleak,and the stress-level and workload is high.
I think school systems who employ young African-American and Hispanic teachers should utilize them as task forces to return back to their alma maters and other college campuses on job-fair days and help recruit. Give them paid time off and reimbursement for travel expences, of course :)
Minority teacher recruitment task force is just one solution I propose. I found the AJC article of Mr. Duncan's Georgia trip. I cut it out the newspaper and have it stuck somewhere...
http://www.ajc.com/news/duncan-calls-on-black-822680.html
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