Mission 44 launches Diversity in Education Fund

Mission 44 has shared the following article.

Mission 44 launches Diversity in Education Fund

            At Mission 44, everyone believes that to build a more inclusive education system, the teaching workforce must be reflective of the young people it serves.

That’s why over the last two years Mission 44 has worked with organisations such as Teach First and the National Foundation for Educational Research to attract and support more teachers from ethnic minority backgrounds, and to build our collective understanding of the key barriers and enablers to building a more ethnically diverse education system.

Building on this work, Mission 44 is now looking to expand our efforts. Through our Diversity in Education Fund, we want to invest in innovators and systems changes, we will connect and convene organisations and individuals that are collectively able to make the education workforce more ethnically diverse.

Over the next five years, Mission 44 will improve ethnic diversity in teaching and school leadership by:

• improving the representation of ethnically diverse teachers in schools;

• promoting the adoption of racially inclusive practices in schools to support the retention of ethnically diverse teachers and leaders;

• supporting the progression of ethnically diverse school leaders.

In the first instance, Mission 44 will be focusing our investment on increasing the representation of ethnically diverse teachers at the recruitment and selection stage.

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