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AACTE Town Hall on Critical Race Theory
Education Students and Diversity
Discussing Race in PK-12 Classrooms, Why It’s an Essential Skill
Leaning in and Leading through crisis
AACTE Member Survey on Coronavirus Experience and Response
Social and Emotional Learning, Cultural Competence and Equity in Teacher Preparation
One of AACTE’s key strategic priorities is to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. AACTE and its members value the diversity of students, their families, and educators; equity in access to high quality instructional environments; and the inclusion of all students, defined as access and opportunity, in PK-20 classrooms.
“AACTE believes that, in educator preparation, diversity involves having understanding, awareness, acceptance, acknowledgement, and representation of differences. Equity includes meeting learner needs by delivering social justice, differentiating instruction, and providing equal access. Inclusion entails celebrating differences, understanding everybody has something to contribute, and providing opportunity for all to be at the table,” said Dr. Lynn M. Gangone, AACTE President and CEO. “In education today, we must address the persistent problems of the inequities of access, discrimination and bias, as well as the underrepresentation of culturally and linguistically diverse populations among educators.”
In 2019, AACTE released its new video series on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in educator preparation. The videos address a wide variety of topics ranging from promising practices for recruiting and retaining teachers of color, to the importance of culturally relevant teaching for growing the special education teacher pipeline and promoting equal access to quality teachers. The video series serves as a resource for the educator preparation community to effectively address the imperative for preparing well qualified teachers to meet the diverse needs of 21st century learners. AACTE will release its next DEI video series in 2021.
AACTE introduces the second season of its DEI video series, a resource for the educator preparation community to effectively address the imperative to prepare well qualified teachers to meet the diverse needs of 21st century learners. The eight-episode season launched with two videos: Combatting Racial and Social Injustice in Education and Diversifying the Pipeline of School-Education Leaders. AACTE members will have access to the full second season on the Connect360 online community.
Combatting Racial and Social Injustice in Education
Diversifying the Pipeline of School-Education Leaders
Fenwick Delivers 20th Annual Brown Lecture in D.C.
Opinion: The Ugly Backlash to Brown v. Board of Ed That No One Talks About
A Call to Action: Rethinking Intro to Education through a Racial Equity and Social Justice Lens
Join AACTE in Growing and Sustaining White Racial Allyship in Education
AACTE Combating Racism Webinar Focuses on Authentic, Action-Oriented Allyship
AACTE’s ‘Combating Racism is Educator Preparation Series’ Offered to Informal Affinity Groups
Congress Faces Packed Summer Agenda
AACTE Celebrates Juneteenth
AACTE’s ‘Combating Racism in Educator Prep’ Series Will Explore Justice and Joy
Overcoming Racial Battle Fatigue Through Education Reform
Equity in Teacher Education
Overcoming Racial Bias in Teacher Evaluation: Walk It, Like You Talk It
Educators on the Front Lines of Social Justice
Special Education Equity in the Era of COVID-19
Equity and Women in Leadership
Racist Curricula in the 21st Century Do Exist
The Reality of Segregation in Public Schools
Walk the integration walk, New York
Do Americans Understand Immigration? Here’s a Pop Quiz to Test Your Knowledge
Immigration and Its Impact on American Schools
AACTE Statement on Racist Attacks Against Asian Americans
AACTE Receives Grant to Reduce Barriers to a Diversified Teaching Workforce
AACTE Urges Educators to Resist Attacks on Critical Race Theory in Education
AACTE Statement on ICE Guidance for International Students at U.S. Colleges and Universities
AACTE Celebrates SCOTUS Decisions Supporting Diversified Educator Workforce
AACTE Board of Directors Calls Educators to Courageous Action on Race Matters in America
AACTE President and CEO Speaks on the Killing of George Floyd and Systemic Racism
AACTE Launches Special Education Networked Improvement Community
Report Identifies Student Diversity in U.S. Colleges of Education by Race and Ethnicity
Holmes Program
Consortium for Research-Based and Equitable Assessments
AACTE DEI Videos
Black and Hispanic/Latino Male Teachers Initiative Networked Improvement Community
Reducing the Shortage of Special Education Teachers Networked Improvement Community
AACTE Topical Action Groups
Disability and the Meaning of Social Justice in Teacher Education Research: A Precarious Guest at the Table?
Making Justice Peripheral by Constructing Practice as “Core”: How the Increasing Prominence of Core Practices Challenges Teacher Education
Examining Grow Your Own Programs Across the Teacher Development Continuum: Mining Research on Teachers of Color and Nontraditional Educator Pipelines
Lessons for Teacher Education: The Role of Critical Professional Development in Teacher of Color Retention
“Color Does Not Equal Consciousness”: Educators of Color Learning to Enact a Sociopolitical Consciousness
A Review of Identity in Research on Social Justice in Teacher Education: What Role for Intersectionality?
Interrogating the Intersections Between General and Special Education in the History of Teacher Education Reform
Striving for Critical Reflection in Multicultural and Social Justice Teacher Education: Introducing a Typology of Reflection Approaches
Preparing Teachers to Notice Race in Classrooms: Contextualizing the Competencies of Preservice Teachers With Antiracist Inclinations
Exceeding Expectations: Teachers’ Decision Making Regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students
Do I Belong in the Profession? The Cost of Fitting In as a Preservice Teacher With a Passion for Social Justice
Sustaining Bilingual–Biliterate Identities: Latinx Preservice Teachers’ Narrative Representations of Bilingualism and Biliteracy Across Time and Space
The AACTE DEI Handbook (2020) features successful ways AACTE members implement at their educator preparation programs (EPPs) in pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion. It highlights strategies that support faculty and staff professional development in the areas of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy and practices. Additionally, effective ways EPPs support the recruitment and retention of a racially and ethnically diverse educator candidate pool are shared.
