Organization mentors Black teachers to counteract dropout rate among Black students

Organization mentors Black teachers to counteract dropout rate among Black students


Imere Williams:

I think they see me and they see someone that looks like them in a professional position. They see that, like, I can do that one day.

Actually, one of my students, said, like: “I want to be like you, Mr. Williams one day.” And that sort of just like — first, it melted my heart, but also sort of gave like even more fire to do this work, especially in a profession where so many doubts come with it, not a lot of pay, a lot of stress, a lot of duties, but things like that sort of, like, reel you back in.



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