The Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium (PEDC) is a grassroots organization of early childhood, PK-12, higher education, non-profit, community and government leaders, and other invested partners striving to increase the number of teachers of color, specifically those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, in Pennsylvania. There are over 250 individuals, many of whom represent nearly 90 organizations across the Commonwealth, who are committed to PEDC’s vision of a future where each learner in Pennsylvania experiences ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse and culturally relevant and sustaining educators leading their classrooms and educational institutions. PEDC members join monthly meetings, participate in active working groups and committees, and engage in collaborative problem-solving to focus on the attraction, recruitment, mentorship, and retention of BIPOC educators. For more information about PEDC, please visit our website: www.paeddiversity.org and follow us on social media @paeddiversity.

Our purpose is to engage members and invested partners in critical conversations about the future of educator diversity in Pennsylvania and identify actions needed to increase the number of ethnically, racially, linguistically, and both culturally relevant and sustaining educators and education systems in Pennsylvania.

Disrupt

Examine and identify ways to disrupt inequitable, long-standing unjust structures and systems that hinder the success and access of learners and educators in Pennsylvania. 

Reimagine

Envision an anti-racist education system in Pennsylvania where every educator is culturally relevant and sustaining and is valued, respected, and embraced by our education system. 

Mobilize

Utilize the collective impact strategy to determine and share specific contributions in addressing the demographic mismatch between educators and learners of color and explore strategies, and tools, and actionable steps needed to move the work forward.

Disrupt

How can we explore, identify, and amplify what works in dismantling inequitable and unjust systems that hinder access, opportunity, and success for every learner and educator in Pennsylvania?

Reimagine

How can we envision, create, pilot, and scale new and innovative approaches that support an anti-racist education system where every educator in Pennsylvania is culturally relevant and sustaining, valued, respected, and embraced?

Mobilize

How can we mobilize collaboration across sectors for systems change to explore strategies, tools, and actionable steps needed to move the work forward?