Watts of Power Foundation

The Watts of Power’s Village Initiative addresses the social, emotional, and housing needs of Black male teachers-in-training.

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🖌️Principals report graduates of residency programs to be more effective than other novice teachers. #ResideInPower #BlackEducators #EducationalEquity #TeacherRetention #GoodTeaching #EducationMatters

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A 🧵: Teacher residency programs, like The Village Initiative, develop effective, long term educators.

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🖍️Prospective teachers consistently report being better prepared and supported by residency programs than other pathways.
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🏫Black prospective educators face systemic barriers to entering the teaching workforce– barriers that stretch back to school integration.

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🧵Black educators improve outcomes for students– so why aren’t they in classrooms?

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👨🏾‍🏫Dr. Horace Tate, a Georgia principal, lost many of his students, teachers, and salary after his school district integrated. Eventually, after losing all of his students, he was pushed to resign, a common story for Black educators of his time period.

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📚Having a Black teacher improves outcomes, including higher test scores and improved attendance, for students of all races.

🎓Black boys who are taught by at least one Black male teacher in their earliest years of schooling are 29% more likely to go to college.

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Los Angeles: check the numbers. We need more Black educators in our classrooms.

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Watts of Power Foundation is so excited to announce that The Village Initiative has been featured in ground-breaking research on teacher residencies!

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