Black Men Teach

Enhancing Opportunities for Black Men

Established in 2018, Black Men Teach provides leadership and activities that strengthen pathways for Black men to become elementary school teachers. Their direct target is exclusively Black men (high school students, college students and career changers), encouraging them to pursue teaching as a career, supporting them through their training and into welcoming school environments. They promote their school-to-career employment pipeline including recruitment, readiness, training, placement, and career advancement and support Black male teachers with professional development, mentoring and ongoing training opportunities. Their objective is to have 20% of the teaching staff in their four (growing to eight) partner schools be Black men within five years (2026).

BMT is on track to meet its goal of placing Black male teachers in eight partner elementary schools. Under Executive Director Markus Flynn’s tutelage since 2021, BMT has built a pipeline of 49 “pre-service” high school and college fellows and 21 classroom teachers.

• Increased High School Pipeline: from 0 to 14 (last year 32 HS students were in the pipeline with most of them moving on to college programming)
• Increased College Pipeline: from 6 to 35
• Increased Teachers Supported in Classroom: from 1 to 21