Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Urban Education

Publication Date

2025

Keywords

GYO teachers, teachers of color, teacher preparation, community teacher

Abstract

The authors describe an initiative between an urban public school district, a city college, and a college of education to establish a pipeline of teachers of color from and for the school district. The qualitative research occurred during the teacher candidates’ participation in a community immersion program. Centering the teacher candidates’ experiences and reactions to the community immersion highlights their identity, commitment to teaching, and the importance of exposing homegrown teachers to communities beyond their own. The authors discuss community-based curriculum in the preparation of teachers and consider how the experiences of teacher candidates of color impact program implementation.

Funding Source

This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Sage Journals.

Comments

First published in Urban Education (2025): https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859251337036

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

DOI

10.1177/00420859251337036

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