Shady Hill’s Future Teachers Institute Hosts Five Fellows
“I didn’t just want to be a Black male teacher. I wanted to be a Black male teacher who cares,” said Michael S., one of five African American, Haitian, and Puerto Rican men who participated in Shady Hill’s 10th annual Future Teachers Institute.
The program was launched to introduce promising teachers to Shady Hill’s teacher-education program. For three days, our FTI fellows immersed themselves in the SHS community. They shadowed apprentices, observed master teachers in action, ate lunch with our faculty, and reflected on the many ways our students demonstrate their sense of agency, creativity, and ownership of their learning in our day and afterschool programs.
When our boys of color saw these impressive young men in their classrooms and saw mirrors of themselves, we were reminded how important it is to have men of color at the helm, teaching and leading in independent and public schools.
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