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How Black male teachers in Minnesota are recruiting others to the profession

How Black male teachers in Minnesota are recruiting others to the profession
Currently 34% of K-12 students across the state are students of color, while just 4% of licensed teachers identify as nonwhite.
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Riham Feshir / MPR News |
10:27 am, Dec. 21, 2020
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Prodeo Academy teacher Markus Flynn leads a fifth grade science class that is learning remotely. Flynn has been teaching for two years and is the new executive director of Black Men Teach. Christine T. Nguyen / MPR News
MINNEAPOLIS All throughout high school, Kaiyre Lewis enjoyed working with kids. He babysat, he coached youth teams, worked at camps. It came natural to him, especially as a big brother. ....

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'Who you are is valuable': How Black male teachers in Minnesota are recruiting others to the profession

But when Lewis started college last year, he picked a major in political science.
“I barely knew what poli sci was,” said Lewis, 19, a sophomore at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. “And then I got a job at a day care, and I had always in the back of my mind thought, ‘Maybe teaching, maybe teaching.’”
But as a Black man and the first in his family to go to college, Lewis said he faced pressure to go to school for something more lucrative.
“And on top of that, I only see white women,” he said. “I never looked at my teachers and thought, ‘That s gonna be me one day.’” ....

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