With support from the W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation, the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) partnered with the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University to conduct a formative evaluation of NCTR’s Black Educators Initiative (BEI) to identify promising strategies for recruiting and retaining Black educators. Launched in 2019, the National Center for Teacher Residencies’ (NCTR) Black Educators Initiative (BEI) is designed to recruit, prepare, and retain new Black teachers through a national Network of teacher residency programs. NCTR’s BEI aims to improve outcomes for Black students in particular, and for all students generally, by increasing access to effective Black teachers. Read the report. (July 2022)