A Model for Sustaining Diversity and Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices in Education
This is an online social learning community designed to support the needs of all stakeholders working with the Coach Hub initiative as the central platform in helping develop coaches and educators working together within the program. This space provides a place where they can utilize resources, access training materials for the program, participate in professional development, and interact with other members of this community virtually. Participating educators and coaches are free to interact in this space, in sharing their successes, challenges, offering solutions, developing creative ideas to integrate into their professional practice. Here they will have access to a variety of supports built into the website that will be constantly growing to support the needs of developing educators.
This community of practice incorporates the shared learning of individuals united by a common passion who engage with one another to experience educational growth as a collective experience. Learning communities such as these have existed since the beginning of time as tribes of people learning to grow and thrive, masters and apprentices in their profession, classes of students defining their identity within their school, artists seeking to develop new forms of expression, surgeons exploring and developing new techniques-- the list is endless (Wenger-Trayner, 2015). By using this model we can blend the concept of communal learning, with modern technology to deliver our form of support to meet the growing 21st century needs of educators to an online social learning community. This can enhance the convenience of support that educators receive, by addressing professional learning on their differentiated andragogical needs, towards retaining teachers of color in the field of education.
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