Updated on April 1, 2021 at 11:21 pm
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Dallas ISD is expanding an initiative called the Adjunct Teacher Dallas Residency Program to recruit more Latino male teachers.
DISD has around 150,000 students and about 70% population is made up of Hispanic/Latino students.
Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. All the research shows that if you have someone that looks like you, someone that you know you can relate to and talks like you and can understand you and maybe grew up, you know, in the same circumstances that you did, you have a higher rate of success, said DISD Deputy Chief of Human Capital Management, John Vega. And so, the long, long term goal is for for our kids to obviously go to college and so that s why this is very important for us.
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Dallas ISD is partnering with the University of North Texas Dallas in effort to recruit more males of color to teaching as a profession.
UNTD’s initiatives in this area includes the UNTD School of Education’s THRIVE (Teach Hope Respond Inspire Value and Empower), as well as a recent partnership with Call Me Mister, a 20-year-old national program started by Dr. Roy Jones at Clemson University. The mission of the Call Me MISTER® (acronym for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) Initiative is to increase the pool of available teachers from a broader more diverse background.