Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance to Host Male Educators of Color Summit

Approximately 35 percent of the students in Tennessee are students of color while only roughly 15 percent of teachers are teachers of color. While we want to raise awareness of why this is critical for students, we also want to launch an advocacy campaign to establish a statewide goal for increasing (recruiting and retaining) teacher diversity by 20 percent by the year 2025 to create parity between students of color and teachers of color. In an effort to support this campaign, one of many initiatives, the Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance will host a statewide Male Educators of Color Summit in Memphis at the National Civil Rights Museum on Saturday, April 11, 2020.

​​Approximately 35 percent of the students in Tennessee are students of color while only roughly 15 percent of teachers are teachers of color. While we want to raise awareness of why this is critical for students, we also want to launch an advocacy campaign to establish a statewide goal for increasing (recruiting and retaining) teacher diversity by 20 percent by the year 2025 to create parity between students of color and teachers of color. In an effort to support this campaign, one of many initiatives, the Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance will host a statewide Male Educators of Color Summit in Memphis at the National Civil Rights Museum on Saturday, April 11, 2020.

• Outcome #1: Current male educators of color will be more inspired to remain in the profession
• Outcome #2: Aspiring and current educators of color will be able to connect and form sustainable relationships that can be fostered into mentorship opportunities.
• Outcome#3: Attendees will receive relevant and timely professional development that can inform and be applied to their practice.
• Outcome #4: Attendees will be inspired to pursue and be selected to leadership opportunities, both formal and informal.
• Outcome #5: Attendees will be high satisfied with the community created and their overall experience at the convening.