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Mar 18, 2024 · Call Me MiSTER (CMM) – Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models – is a teacher leadership program that addresses the crucial need for greater diversity in Colorado’s classrooms by leading in the recruitment, training, and placement of African American male teachers.
First, make a difference in young people. Want to affect eternity? Teach young people. That's what astronaut Christa McAuliffe meant when she said, "I touch the future. I teach." Our program, Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models), can help you become a teacher.
Nov 16, 2023 · Denver news. New MSU Denver program aims to train more male educators of color. Black men are just a small fraction of educators nationwide. The Call Me MISTER program at Metropolitan State...
Oct 5, 2023 · Launched in 2000 at Clemson University and Historically Black Colleges and Universities Morris College, Claflin University and Benedict College, Call Me MISTER now spans 12 states and includes over 40 cohorts and over 500 certified MISTERs.
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Twenty-one years ago, when Jones looked at South Carolina’s school statistics, he found them sobering. Although 40 percent of students were African American, just 1 percent of their teachers were African American men. In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So a vast majority of the elementary schools i...
In the 1967 movie “In The Heat of the Night,” there’s a scene where a Black detective and a white sheriff disagree about the details of a criminal case. The sheriff pokes fun at detective Virgil Tibbs’ first name and mockingly asks what he’s called back home. With a steely look, the detective replies, “They call me Mr.Tibbs.” That line inspired the...
At Riverside Middle School near Greenville, South Carolina, there is one Black male teacher. A seven-year veteran of the profession, Kerry Highsmith serves as chair of the math department, stays after school to keep working with students, and mediates between teachers and the administration when necessary. Before all that, he was a Mister. “I don’t...
Call Me MISTER didn’t stay a South Carolina secret for long. Five years into the program, a foundation asked Jones to share what he had learned about recruiting Black men into teaching. Hundreds of people from around the country showed up for the conference. “They were stunned,” Jones says. Now, Jones regularly fields inquiries from far-flung insti...
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Nov 10, 2023 · The Call Me MISTER program is new to MSU Denver but was started in 2000 in South Carolina at Clemson University along with Morris College, Claflin University and Benedict College – three...
The Call Me MiSTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role models) program at the University of Colorado Denver, is a teacher leadership initiative that addresses the crucial need for greater diversity in Colorado’s classrooms. It aims to provide guidance and support for African American men who are pursuing a teaching career.
