What does the CECP offer?
The CECP offers its cohort students
- Stipends for each participant
- An ethnic studies and social justice approach to preparing leaders
- A cohort approach that facilitates group efficacy, as students support each other through transitions between community college, university, and beyond
- Awareness of and engagement with community groups, movements, and leaders
- Focus on ethnic studies pedagogy and youth participatory action research
- Teaching and workshop facilitation opportunities with K-12 youth
- Support in advising, scholarships, grants, and financial aid opportunities
- A clear pathway for degree attainment, licensure, and employment opportunities in education
- Enhanced “college knowledge”
- Cultural validation
- Increased self and group efficacy
- Investment in the community
- Increased public speaking / presentation skills and opportunities
- Participation in rigorous academic research and writing
- Near-peer mentorship through the connections established with the college student-teachers
- Enhanced engagement in participatory action research
- Built-in college-knowledge sharing
- Opportunity to interact with both the college students and their own students in a dialogic manner decentering power dynamics and allowing for a greater engagement in the classroom
- Direct impact on and connection with cohorts of future teachers
- Increased presence in K12 learning as community resources