America is getting increasingly diverse. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white.
Over the past two years, the nonprofit Digital Promise has been leading research into why schools have found it difficult to recruit and retain teachers of color—and to try to work with teachers of color in districts around the country to find new approaches that work better.
“Our position is that there’s no better expert to understand how to recruit and retain a teacher of color than a teacher of color,” says Kimberly Smith, who co-leads Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation.
