This "Fastback" presents an overview of the problem of recruiting minorities into teaching from a national perspective and describes the collaborative project in Louisville, Kentucky, that addresses the problem. This project involves close cooperation between the community, the school district, the university, and the teaching profession. The discussion concludes with a framework for recruiting minorities into teaching and offers recommendations for enhancing minority recruitment efforts in other school systems. (JD)

Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers are underrepresented in public schools across the United States of America, with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color making up roughly 37% of the adult population and 50% of children, but just 19% of the teaching force. Yet research over decades has indicated their positive impact on student learning and social and emotional development, particularly for Students of Color and Indigenous Students. A first of its kind, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers addresses key issues and obstacles to ethnoracial diversity across the life course of teachers’ careers, such as recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions. Including chapters from leading researchers and policy makers, the Handbook is designed to be an important resource to help bridge the gap between scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. In doing so, this research will serve as a launching pad for discussion and change at this critical moment in our country’s history. The volume’s goal is to drive conversations around the issue of ethnoracial teacher diversity and to provide concrete practices for policy makers and practitioners to enable them to make evidence-based decisions for supporting an ethnoracially diverse educator workforce, now and in the future.

Activities aimed at addressing the need for recruiting women and minorities in school administration are presented in this resource manual, which is a collective work of the Study Group on Women and Minorities sponsored by the National LEADership Network. Each section describes an interactive, adaptable activity that is aimed at policymakers and administrative staffs. The first activity focuses on how to obtain, use, and disseminate information to create a state demographic profile. The second activity aims to share information about several current recruitment programs and to help Leadership in Educational Administration Development (LEAD) directors plan for expanding recruitment efforts. Providing entry-level support is the purpose of the third activity, which is designed to create awareness and encourage the development of entry-level programs for women and minorities. The fourth activity examines the promotion of advancement opportunities for women and minorities: identifying barriers to advancement and determining strategies to overcome them, and valuing diversity in leadership styles. Activity 5 helps administrators create an action plan. Forty-three figures can be made into transparencies, and a list of resources accompanies each section. Appendices contain an article on access to the roles of school leadership, resolutions adopted by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and American Association of School Administrators (AASA), LEAD Center directors/trainers resources, and training activity notes. (Contains 44 references.) (LMI)

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.

Challenges to American college and university affirmative action and racial and ethnic diversity initiatives were resolved by the Supreme Court in its 2003 decisions in the University of Michigan case. Those decisions affirmed, as a compelling interest, the attainment of racially diverse student bodies in higher education. The Court's decisions and the predicted increases over the next decade in the numbers of race and ethnic group high school graduates have reinforced and in some cases strengthened the resolve of college and university officials that the positive returns from affirmative action and racial diversity are real and worth pursuing. The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to provide a record of the research, scholarship, and programs for recruitment and retention of African American, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian American, Latino, and Pacific Islander students at the college and university levels. It is structured to facilitate access by college and university administrators, professionals, consultants, researchers, and students who require information on recruitment and retention to aid in their decision making about strategy related issues, and scientific and creative processes in the area. This bibliography covers more than forty years of literature and contains 969 citations organized into five chapters.

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)

The activities in this resource manual are aimed at those who make policies and decisions about the staffing of administrator positions. Covers: expanding recruitment efforts, providing entry-level support, promoting advancement opportunities, determining next steps, and much more. Bibliography. Graphs.