“If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches

DJ Thomas III - Theory & Research in Social Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Fostering a sense of civic engagement is considered an essential purpose of social studies
education. However, given the ways in which formal civic curricula and standards decenter …

Achieving a more diverse special education teacher workforce: Guiding questions for researchers and policymakers

CJ Cormier, LRA Scott, KE Cornelius… - Multicultural Learning …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Attracting, supporting, and retaining special education teachers of color (SETOCs) is critical
in shaping a diverse special education teacher workforce in the United States. However …

Gatekeepers and guardians of black intellectual thought: Black male teacher-coaches combating an anti-black epistemic order

DD Josiah Thomas III - Teachers College Record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context: Historical narratives and contemporary research continue to produce
scholarship on teacher-coaches through a White racial frame that both reifies a Western …

Black male teacher-coaches' utilization of Black counterpublics: The Black family, liberatory fantasy, and resisting the ontological limitation of Blackness

DJ Thomas III - Urban Education, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from a conceptual framework grounded in Black critical theories, this qualitative
case study explored the youth knowledge that two Black Male social studies teacher …

(Un) natural saviors and motivators: Analyzing the pathological scripting of Black male teachers in Hollywood films

D Thomas III, M Johnson, A Brown - Educational Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores how Black male teachers in Hollywood films continue to be encoded
with meanings derived from deficit social science discourse generated through a white …

Coaching wellness, health, and success: Leveraging the potential of Black male coaches to promote positive outcomes for Black K-12 students

I Woods Jr, J Murphy, L Miller, Z Tolbert, L Graham… - 2023 - Taylor & Francis
While there are low percentages of Black males as educators, psychologists, pediatricians,
and psychiatrists, Black students are more likely to have a Black male athletic coach …

The 'absent Black father'metaphor: analyzing education's pathological pursuit of Black male surrogates

DJ Thomas III, MW Johnson… - Discourse: Studies in the …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we utilize the concepts of racial knowledge and subjective understanding to
demonstrate how the metaphor of surrogacy encodes a racialized discourse via the …

Augmenting Human Decision-Making in K-12 Education: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Assisting the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers of Color for …

S Sadeghi, C Niu - Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There is a growing need for a more diverse teacher workforce in the United States to close
the racial and ethnic gap between students and teachers. Due to the significant gap in the …

Getting Black men to the blackboard: Factors that promote Black men teachers' entry into the teaching profession

S Manchanda, T Bristol, P Moss - Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Despite existing recruitment and retention efforts, there has been a persistent
underrepresentation of Black men teachers in the US educator workforce. The present study …

Honoring Through Countering: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Black Male Teachers' in the South Racialized and Gendered Experiences Influence Their Teaching …

MR Mason - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The recruitment and retention of Black male teachers continue to be a national effort. While
there is a plethora of research on attempts to solve this critical issue of teacher diversity …