Teacher Retention Is a School Systems Problem: Building the Black and Brown Middle Class in South LA with Jesse Melgares
Jesse Melgares runs a TK-12 charter school network in South Los Angeles, and he argues teacher retention is not a teacher problem. It is a systems problem, and most school systems never built the systems.
In this episode of The Stronger Podcast, Mike Montoya sits down with Jesse, CEO of The Accelerated Schools, to talk about making good instruction repeatable instead of lucky.
Jesse grew up in East Hollywood, a first generation Salvadoran-American in LAUSD schools in the nineties. He started as an English learner, reclassified in third grade, then tested into the gifted program, which he…
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