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These roles offer a blend of in-person and virtual components, providing valuable experience in coaching, professional learning, and fostering a diverse teacher pipeline.
Mentoring and Leadership
Social-emotional and leadership development are a key part of the work NYC Men Teach does to support early-career male teachers of color. Supporting the unique social emotional as well as instructional needs of early-career male teachers of color is important to recruiting and retaining a diverse teaching force.
Below are a few of the mentoring and leadership development opportunities that NYC Men Teach provides to support early male teachers of color (who we refer to as Anchors) as well as to provide leadership opportunities to work with early-career male teachers of color.
Professional Affinity Communities (PAC)
PAC Communities are grade level and subject area focused learning communities aimed at supporting proximity based NYC Men Teach teachers in goal setting, racial literacy skills, and socioemotional development critical to our collective development as educators and leaders. Teachers will have the opportunity to facilitate professional learning, engage in critical analysis of their colleagues and their own teaching practice, track their own self-care plan for the year, and develop an instructional goal on their path to leadership in their schools and individual teaching practice.
Supplemental Mentoring and Coaching Spaces
NYC Men Teach can provide additional mentoring and coaching to support early-career teachers. Coaching spaces support questions around planning, assessment, classroom management, stress and time management, as well as other topics important for early-career teachers.
Professional Development
NYC Men Teach offers ongoing professional development for early-career and later-career teachers continuing their professional learning in addition to school leaders, partner schools, and our wide network of education professionals across the city.
Throughout the school year, NYC Men Teach community members attend diverse Professional Development programs meant to create safe environments to encourage courageous conversations around race and gender, while providing practical ways to bring them into the classroom. Primary components include culturally responsive education, racial literacy, and competency-based learning.
Community Events
NYC Men Teach hosts several events each year that bring together NYCMT Anchors, Mentors, Leaders, CUNY Anchors, Village Pathway and Paraprofessional program participants, and other members of the broader NYC Men Teach community alongside those that support the mission and work of NYC Men Teach. From induction events like the NYC Men Teach Kickoff to the year-end Showcase to events that focus on creativity, networking, and self-care, community events allow the broader NYC Men Teach community to share the work of the initiative with others.