Increasing Teacher Diversity

Key Insights

Even as diversity increases among the student population, many school districts struggle to hire diverse teachers. Most profiled districts implement both short-term and long-term strategies to increase teacher and staff diversity. Districts designed these strategies to alter the composition of the applicant pool in the short term. Each district is also promoting long-term increases in teacher and staff diversity by developing programs that strengthen the teacher pipeline of diverse students and community members.

We interviewed assistant superintendents and directors of human resources at five school districts to learn more about their approach to increasing teacher diversity.