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Black male teachers: diversifying the United States’ teacher workforce

Black male teachers: diversifying the United States’ teacher workforce Book review Book review Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States’ Teacher Workforce by Lewis C. and Toldson I. UK (Eds) Emerald Group Publishing Review DOI 10.1108/JME-09-2017-0050 Introduction As a former black male teacher, teacher leader and school leader with over 20 years of experience, I found the book Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States’ Teacher Workforce to be a needed contribution to the conversation about increasing the diversity the K-12 teachers. Having a teacher workforce that reflects the increasing diversity of the nation’s K-12 student population is necessary to ensure the academic achievement of all students, and it has been well documented in the scholarly research literature. Ladson- Billings (2009, p. 161) described the need in American schools to employ teachers who can teach all students regardless of their culture. Ladson-Billings is the first researcher to coin the term, “culturally relevant teaching,” she identified the characteristics of teachers who can meet the instructional needs of culturally diverse students. She goes on to describe these teachers in the following way, “Culturally relevant teachers utilize students’ culture as a vehicle for learning”. The decision to intentionally identify the areas in need of diversification within the teacher population is a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for Multicultural Education Emerald Publishing

Black male teachers: diversifying the United States’ teacher workforce

Anderson, Christian J.
Journal for Multicultural Education , Volume 12 (2): 6 – Jun 11, 2018
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Book review Book review Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States’ Teacher Workforce by Lewis C. and Toldson I. UK (Eds) Emerald Group Publishing Review DOI 10.1108/JME-09-2017-0050 Introduction As a former black male teacher, teacher leader and school leader with over 20 years of experience, I found the book Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States’ Teacher Workforce to be a needed contribution to the conversation about increasing the diversity the K-12 teachers. Having a teacher workforce that reflects the increasing diversity of the nation’s K-12 student population is necessary to ensure the academic achievement of all students, and it has been well documented in the scholarly research literature. Ladson- Billings (2009, p. 161) described the need in American schools to employ teachers who can teach all students regardless of their culture. Ladson-Billings is the first researcher to coin the term, “culturally relevant teaching,” she identified the characteristics of teachers who can meet the instructional needs of culturally diverse students. She goes on to describe these teachers in the following way, “Culturally relevant teachers utilize students’ culture as a vehicle for learning”. The decision to intentionally identify the areas in need of diversification within the teacher population is a

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