{"data":{"ID":1606,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1791165329,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Rooted and Rising: Students, Alumni, and Community Members as Our Future Faculty","Handle":"rooted_and_rising--students-alumni-and_community_members_as_our_future_faculty","ShortDescription":"What if the teachers our students need are in our hallways? South Bronx Community is growing its own: students in education internships, alumni returning as staff, community members stepping into classrooms, and teachers becoming leaders. We'll explore how a school builds its future faculty from the community it serves.","Description":"This fall, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in The New York Times Magazine about enrolling her daughter in a segregated, high-poverty New York City public school, and about what that choice cost her child. The essay reopened a painful national debate. Should families committed to public schools serving Black and Latino children have to choose between their values and their own kids? We think part of the answer lies in who teaches in those schools, and what they believe students can do.\r\nAt South Bronx Community, we are building a pipeline with four stages:\r\n\u2022 Students explore teaching through a new NYC Public Schools initiative. Students take an exposure course for careers in education and are also placed into education related internships by our Career Team.\r\n\u2022 Alumni return as interns, tutors, and staff while in college.\r\n\u2022 Community beacons from the neighborhood step into classroom and youth development roles.\r\n\u2022 School leaders grow from within our own teaching staff.\r\nEducators who come from the community bring deep knowledge of students' lives. Just as important, they hold high expectations because they know firsthand what our students can do. \r\nIn this conversation, we'll share how each stage works, and what support keeps them in. The kids the world will need include the adults who will one day teach the next generation.","Link":["https:\/\/southbronxcommunity.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"1. Opening question (5 min): Participants talk in pairs about who first made them think they could teach, and whether that person came from their own community.\r\n2. Pipeline stories (15 min): Gaylene, Asia, Dena and McKenzie each tell the story of one person moving through a stage, ideally with that person present or on a video call.\r\n3. Fishbowl on the hard question (15 min): Using the Hannah-Jones essay as a text, an inner circle discusses whether grow-your-own pipelines can deliver both community connection and the academic rigor families demand.\r\n4. Pipeline audit (15 min): Small groups map their own schools' pathways into teaching, marking where candidates are lost and one support that could hold them.\r\n5. Harvest (5 min): We collect strategies, partner programs, and open questions in a shared doc.","Presenter":["Gaylene Alexis","Asia Cruz","Dena Ferreira","Mckenzie Samuels"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["gaylene.alexis@southbronxcommunity.org","asia.cruz@southbronxcommunity.org","dena.ferreira@southbronxcommunity.org","mckenzie.samuels@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":null,"ScheduleLocationID":null,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":14}}