Empowering Diversity in Education
Our mission is to enhance the diversity of educators, ensuring that our nation’s increasingly diverse student body achieves its full academic potential. The challenge is clear: without effective strategies to recruit, prepare, and retain Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers (TOCIT), the academic achievements and future prospects of our students and nation are at risk. Achieving diversity in the teaching profession requires a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy that spans the entirety of a teacher’s career. Current trends indicate a concerning turnover rate among BIPOC teachers; without significant improvements in early career support and working conditions, efforts to enhance diversity will be short-lived.
The Power of Research-Practice Partnerships
Our strategy involves creating strong, intentional, and strategic partnerships between educators and scholars to address local challenges and promote ethno-racial diversity among teachers. The National Center for Racial Equity and Diversity in Education (NCRED) is at the forefront of fostering these collaborations, connecting local education agencies with an array of researchers to drive meaningful change. Our goal is dual: to increase ethnoracial diversity in local education areas and to deepen understanding of effective collaboration between scholars and practitioners on this critical issue.
