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Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs

Danielle Sanderson Edwards,
Matthew A. Kraft

“Grow Your Own” (GYO) programs have recently emerged as a promising approach to expand teacher supply, address localized teacher shortages, and diversify the profession. However, little is known about the scale and design of GYO programs, which recruit and support individuals from the local community to become teachers. We conduct a quantitative content analysis to describe 94 GYO initiatives. We find that GYO is used broadly as an umbrella term to describe teacher pipeline programs with very different purposes, participants, and program features. Our results suggest that misalignment between some GYOs’ purposes and program features may inhibit their effectiveness. Finally, we propose a new typology to facilitate more precise discussions of GYO programs.

Keywords
Grow Your Own, teacher pipeline programs, teacher supply
Education level
K-12 Education
Topics
Teacher and Leader Development
Tags
Teacher hiring and retention
Download 01/2024
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/0s8x-c050
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Edwards, Danielle Sanderson, and Matthew A. Kraft. (). Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs. (EdWorkingPaper: -895). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/0s8x-c050

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