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How to Diversify California’s Educator Workforce (Article)
There is a demographic mismatch between teachers and students across California’s public schools. The most recent data from the California Department of Education indicated that while 77% of students are Asian American, Black, Latino, and/or Native American, only 39% of their teachers are.
Citation/Source
Bristol, T.J. "How to Diversify California's Educator Workforce." Edsource, (2022).
Publication Date 2024
How Positive Outlier Districts Create a Strong and Stable Teaching Force (PDF)
This study examines a set of seven “positive outlier” districts in California in which students across racial/ethnic groups are consistently outperforming students of similar racial/ethnic backgrounds from families of similar income and education levels in most other California districts. In addition, these districts are achieving more equitable opportunities and outcomes across a range of measures. This cross-case study consolidates lessons learned from these seven districts in California during the early implementation of new standards in California.
Citation/Source
Burns, Dion, Linda Darling-Hammond, Caitlin Scott. 2020. How positive outlier districts create a strong and stable teaching force (research brief). Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/media/463/download?inline&file=Positive_Outlier_Districts_Strong_Stable_Teachers_BRIEF.pdf (accessed January 30, 2023).
Publication Date 2024
How California Districts Seek to Recruit, Retain Black Teachers Amid Shortage (Article)
Experts attribute the lack of Black K-12 teachers in California to a number of barriers, including underrepresentation in teacher credentialing programs, as well as workplace discrimination that prompts some to leave the profession.
Citation/Source
Tadayon, A. "How California Districts Seek to Recruit, Retain Black Teachers Amid Shortage." Edsource, (2022).
Publication Date 2024
Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart (BOOK)
In contrast to the medical model of trauma informed practice, Ginwright provides educators with a paradigm of urban education that includes celebration and understanding of community, culture, resilience, and healing.
Citation/Source
Ginwright, Shawn. 2016. Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart. New York: Rouledge.
Publication Date 2024
High-Leverage Practices in Special Education (BOOK)
This text, published by the Council for Exceptional Children, provides educators with specific high-leverage practices, HLPs, separated into four themes. These are collaboration, assessment, social-emotional and behavioral practices, and instruction. As special education HLPs are consistent with best practices in education, the book is available as a resource to all education professionals.
Citation/Source
McLeskey, J. 2017. High-Leverage Practices in Special Education. Arlington, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.
Publication Date 2024
Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report (BOOK)
In 1968, a bipartisan commission was created and tasked with holding hearings, studying, and reporting out on the racial division that had caused riots in cities across America. Their charge was to identify what happened, why, and how to prevent its reoccurrence. That commission determined that while population migration was the change that took place, institutionalized white racism caused the uprisings. Extensive social systems change was required to eradicate the division. The 2018 volume investigates the myriad of structures that make up contemporary life in America and identifies how those structures continue to differ based on race and ethnicity. It is intentionally written to return the issues to the public forefront and to call citizens to action.
Citation/Source
Harris, Fred and Curtis, Alan. 2018. Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Publication Date 2024
Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice (BOOK)
Maynard and Weinstein use this text to encourage educators to create school cultures that rely on relationships, empathy, communication and restoration in place of punishment and exclusion.
Citation/Source
Maynard, Nathan, and Weinstein, Brad. 2019. Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice. Highland Heights, OH: Times 10 Publications.
Publication Date 2024
Guide to Observing Hispanic Heritage Month (Website)
The San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) built a website full of resources to celebrate and honor the culture, history, and contributions of Hispanic Americans. In observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Citation/Source
San Diego County Office of Education, (2021).
Publication Date 2024
Getting to the Root Causes of Disproportionate Representation in Special Education Using Root Cause Tools (ONLINE TRAINING)
Provides an overview of this New York University self-assessment tool. Training Module 1: Overview of Metropolitan Center for Urban Education’s Disproportionality Workbooks Training Module 2: Using the Data Analysis Workbook Training Module 3: Knowing A Disproportionality Problem Based On Numbers Training Module 4: Using the Equity in Education Workbook Training Module 5: Discussing Culturally Responsive Education Beliefs Training Module 6: Common Causes of Disproportionality in Special Education and Suspension
Citation/Source
Edward Fergus, presenter (2010) State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project, California Department of Education.
Publication Date 2024
Get Out! Black Male Suspensions in California Public Schools (PDF)
This paper provides readers with clear, current data on widespread inequity in discipline as it pertains to African American males in California’s schools.
Citation/Source
Wood, J. Luke, Harris III, Frank , Howard, Tyrone C.. 2018. “Get Out! Black Male Suspensions in California Public Schools.” San Diego, CA. Community College Equity Assessment Lab and the UCLA Black Male Institute.
Publication Date 2024
The State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project is a program of the Napa County Office of Education.
Funding Information
California Department of Education, Special Education Division’s special project, State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project (SPP-TAP) is funded through a contract with the Napa County Office of Education. SPP-TAP is funded from federal funds, (State Grants #H027A080116) provided from the U.S. Department of Education Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.
