Erica Hines

Erica Hines is network director for the National Center for Teacher Residencies, which launches and supports clinical teacher preparation programs nationwide.

Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Department of Education for the Black Students Matter march, organized by Educators for Equity on June 19 in Washington, DC.

Want to Support Black Students? Invest in Black Teachers

Growing up with Black teachers as mothers, we lived in households where dis...

Growing up with Black teachers as mothers, we lived in households where discussions of education were ever-present, involved and sometimes, to our annoyance as children, inescapable. Both of our moms spent their years in the...