How ‘Grow-Your-Own’ Programs Are Helping Recruit Teachers of Color
Joselyne Garcia-Moreno always loved and excelled at math. But attending an all English-speaking high school could have squelched this passion for Garcia-Morena, who grew up in a Spanish-speaking household and spent most of her formative years attending school in Mexico.
“I was really nervous. I could barely have a conversation in English,” she said of her early high school days. Having only one female math teacher of color throughout her K-12 education didn’t help inspire her, either.
But Pathways2Teaching, a grow-your-own program designed to encourage students of color to become teachers in their home communities, did.