The tools and resources in this book help school leaders seamlessly incorporate minority teacher recruitment and retention programs into current human-resources activities. With details about exemplary minority teacher recruitment and retention programs, this book also showcases strategies for how to replicate such programs in your own school or district. Contents include: A Critical Examination of Teacher Shortages: Thoughts on Needed Change; Identification of Recruitment Models Focused on Minority Teachers: A Theoretical; Concept and Survey; Pipeline Programs for Minority Teacher Recruitment; and Prepare for Action.

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The tools and resources in this book help school leaders seamlessly incorporate minority teacher recruitment and retention programs into current human-resources activities. With details about exemplary minority teacher recruitment and retention programs, this book also showcases strategies for how to replicate such programs in your own school or district. Contents include: A Critical Examination of Teacher Shortages: Thoughts on Needed Change; Identification of Recruitment Models Focused on Minority Teachers: A Theoretical; Concept and Survey; Pipeline Programs for Minority Teacher Recruitment; and Prepare for Action.

Presentations at this conference focused on the following topics: (1) the recruitment and retention of minorities in teacher education; (2) history and social psychology of the issue; (3) futuristic views and minority participation in the 1990s; (4) comparison of teacher education programs in traditionally black and white institutions; (5) profiles of existing programs; (6) recruitment/marketing strategies for minorities in teacher education; (7) group problem solving and the task before us; (8) a model for recruitment and retention of minority students in teacher education; and (9) planning for the future: a national perspective. A list of participants is included as well as summaries of work group discussions. (JD)