Marci Alboher’s Post

Problematic Issues: The Missing Black Principal - Excellent and informative article on the growing need for more Black Principals across American schools; especially in areas that serve Black and Brown children. This article highlights the decrease in Black principals nationwide, at a staggering 10 percent of public school principals nationwide. This significant decrease in population can be used to support the challenges of recruiting and retaining Black teachers which continues to be a problematic issue. Given that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision which promised to improve educational conditions with public K12 education. It's interesting to know that the opposite has occurred in regards to equitable numbers of Black principals and Educators. This article showcases that if educational leaders can grasp the positive and impactful importance of Black principals, there would in fact be a greater increase in the number of Black teachers recruited and retained across the United States. #BlackEducators #BlackPrincipals #K12Education #Transformation #BrownVsBoardOfEducation #EducationLeadership #Inequality #BlackTeachers #MinorityTeachers

RECRUIT & RETAIN: CODE BLACK ⚫️ Excellent article on the challenges districts and schools across the country whether public, private, religious or independent face in the successful recruitment and rettaining of Black Educators. The primary contributing factor is the lack of support( i.e., mentoring), lack of respect for Black teachers within the classroom environment and the uniquenessof expertise/experiencethey bring to a particular school. Factors which contributes to the often mass exodus encountered by Black Educators regardless of the schools association. With recruitment and rettainment numbers dwindling national, Black Educators make up only 6% of the total US teaching population. With growing research indicating the positive benefits of having Black Educators in the classroom not only for Black students, but all students, regardless of race. The article addresses additional factors contributing to the declining number of Black Educators across all educational learning environments including feelings of isolation, lack of support in addressing racism and bias, as well as said Educators own emotional well-being. Very insightful article on a growing problem facing K-12 within the United States, regardless of the school setting. Dr. B #Blackeducators #Recruitment #K12 #Careerpreparation #Research #Blackstudentsuccess #StudentSuccess #Mentoring #Teacherpreparation #Teachers #Teachershortage #CaliforniaStateUniversity #RecruitmentAndRettain #Mentalhealth #Selfcare #Wellness #Credentialing #LosAngelesUnified #UCBerkeley #BlackTeachers

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My article and photos are on the front page of the #1 Black newspaper in America

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A powerful piece by Professor Anansi Wilson!

September is American Founders and Constitution Month in Utah. I feel it obligatory to share a few impressions and thoughts on what this Nation and its founding principles mean to me. Without this country's guiding principles declaring rights, authority, and freedoms, we would not have this forum or even the right to make known our thoughts, impressions, and ideas. The penning of The Declaration of Independence, affirms the "rights" of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and our Founding Fathers believed and trusted that these inalienable rights were to be self-evident, or in other words, so obvious that proof or explanation was not needed. And why? Because these rights were endowed by God-our Creator and as such, can only be taken away by Him. And how and why would these rights ever be taken away? Because we have failed to recognize these truths; through our own negligence and ignorance we have deprived ourselves of their self-evidence, and as such have forfeited their protection. It is a truism that when we have constant access to something, we are less likely to value it and more likely to take it for granted. As Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be” (Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 Jan. 1816). The Preamble of the Constitution, states, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The noun use of people implies "all of us". All of us as citizens of the United States. We are the force that gives power to the government. It is through our collective effort that the Constitution's purposes are manifest. Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? May we not forfeit these rights or leave them deprived, but instead let us learn of them anew or afresh as we read the sacred documents we know as The Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence.

The first review of my novel is in, and it's favorable! https://lnkd.in/geQc6Tbs