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Constance A. Lindsay
On-the-Job Learning: How Peers and Experience Drive Productivity among Teachers
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentTags: Elementary schoolsWorkers learn on the job from both repetition and peers. Less understood is how specific types of experience and peer characteristics affect on-the-job learning. This likely differs by context (e.g., occupation, tasks, or roles). Absent such knowledge, it is unclear how to optimally… more →
How Teachers Learn Racial Competency: The Role of Peers and Contexts
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThis paper investigates how teachers learn about race in the school context, with a particular focus on teachers’ development of racial competency. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews we find that teachers learn through three sources: from their peers, from years of experience, and from… more →
Spillover Effects of Black Teachers on White Teachers’ Racial Competency: Mixed Methods Evidence from North Carolina
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe US teaching force remains disproportionately white while the student body grows more diverse. It is therefore important to understand how and under what conditions white teachers learn racial competency. This study applies a mixed-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black… more →