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Teach for America pushes to recruit more Native teachers in Oklahoma
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Amber Masters of Teach for America told the Greater Tulsa Indian Affairs Commission the organization is expanding recruitment and virtual programs to grow the Native teacher pipeline in Oklahoma and invited local tribes and commissioners to connect ahead of Tulsa Native American Day.
Amber Masters, vice president of Statewide Innovations and Partnerships for Teach for America Oklahoma, briefed the Greater Tulsa Indian Affairs Commission on the organization’s efforts to recruit more Native teachers and support Native students across the state.
Masters said the group’s central message is that “potential is equally distributed across all students, but right now opportunity is not.” She told commissioners Teach for America seeks promising leaders — often recent college graduates — to teach for two years while receiving professional development and network supports aimed at developing future education…
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