Cleveland Metro School District is predominantly black in regard to students, but the number of black male teachers is minuscule.
Paul Lewis and Jesse Harvey grew up on the same street, they both teach science and come from a family of educators.
“They’re addressed as young men,” said Lewis. “We are Kenneth Clement Boys’ Leadership Academy, so we do want them to become leaders and one of the ways you identify as a leader is being addressed as a man not just as a young boy."“They can visualize themselves actually pushing through and achieving and being successful," said Harvey.
Representation also yields results. A 2017 John’s Hopkins study found low-income black male students paired with a black teacher in elementary school were 39% less likely to drop out of high school. District leaders said they are not blind to the lack of diversity in the district, and that’s where Bruce Ransom and Black Men Teach Cleveland come in, just last month the organization rolled out a campaign encouraging more Black men to dive into K-12 education.
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