Finding Teachers of Color: What the Gates Foundation Thinks
Public disclosure requests can sometimes yield the oddest things (seemingly not related to your request, no matter how narrowly you tailor it.) Such is the case with my public disclosure request from OSPI around charter schools. One e-mail in one batch was from sent in late Nov to various people in education from several districts including SPS about a meeting to discuss how to get attract more people of color to teaching. The e-mail was from the Gates Foundation's Edie Harding, Senior Program Officer, Pacific NW Initiative about their "DEW" work (Diversify the Educator Workforce.) The one SPS invitee was Karen Harris who is an assistant principal at Beacon Hill Elementary. (Ms Harris appears to have worked for the Martinez Foundation whose principal mission is to support teachers of color. The Martinez Foundation has been moved to the Technology Access Foundation.) I did ask the district if they knew about this effort but no one has answered bac...