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Danielle Edwards
@drdsedwards.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Old Dominion University. I study geographic inequities in access to effective schools & teachers
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"Grow Your Own" (GYO) programs were created to encourage members of local communities to become teachers: aiming to address shortages and increase diversity within the profession. Researchers offer new ways to measure the effectiveness of such programs: bit.ly/3IcXMwz.
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My paper with @matthewakraft.com describing the variety of Grow Your Own teacher programs nationally is out in print in @erjournal-aera.bsky.social!

EdResearcher: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Open Access: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...
September 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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New from Jennifer Nelson, Marisol Jimenez, and me in AERA Open:

Hiring Under Constraint: How School Administrators Perceive and Respond to Centralized Screening by the District doi.org/10.1177/2332...

Open access!
July 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Ecstatic that Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs is out in Ed Researcher!

doi.org/10.3102/0013...

@matthewakraft.bsky.social & I explore how the term GYO is used, describe GYO program variation & examine alignment btwn GYO purposes & programming
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April 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Excited to share the @newamerica.org Grow Your Own (GYO) Teacher Research Agenda I co-authored w/ Amaya Garcia Brad Carl Conra Gist Jason Greenberg Motamedi Jenny Seelig & Roey Ahram!

We know little about the effectiveness of GYO programs. We need more research!

www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Research Agenda: Grow Your Own Teachers
This research agenda identifies key questions and data sources that can be used to uncover how GYO programs shape education, influence teacher outcomes, affect school and district performance, improve...
www.newamerica.org
April 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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🚨JUST RELEASED🚨

New @REACHCenterEd policy brief from me & Kaitlin Anderson. Paper published in AERA Open

reachcentered.org/publications...

We estimate the effects of interdistrict choice & charter schl enrollment on btwn & within district racial & economic segregation 1/12
The Segregation Paradox in School Choice | REACH
The mission of REACH is to provide objective, rigorous, and applicable research that informs and improves school choice policy design and implementation to increase opportunities and outcomes for disa...
reachcentered.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🚨JUST RELEASED🚨

New @REACHCenterEd policy brief from me & Kaitlin Anderson. Paper published in AERA Open

reachcentered.org/publications...

We estimate the effects of interdistrict choice & charter schl enrollment on btwn & within district racial & economic segregation 1/12
The Segregation Paradox in School Choice | REACH
The mission of REACH is to provide objective, rigorous, and applicable research that informs and improves school choice policy design and implementation to increase opportunities and outcomes for disa...
reachcentered.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Humbled and honored for my work to receive this high recognition. Thanks @aefpweb.bsky.social and EFP!
Congratulation to our Thomas A Downes Best Paper Award winner
March 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot.

Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...
January 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Grow your own programs, teacher residencies, & teacher apprenticeships. What's the difference?

Sarah Sparks provides a clear & nuanced primer on teacher pipeline models in this EdWeek piece using evidence from @matthewakraft.bsky.social & my working paper!

edweek.org/leadership/4...
October 30, 2024 at 5:41 PM
And check out the great coverage of our work in EdWeek!

edweek.org/teaching-lea...
🚨New Year, New WP!🚨

Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Teacher Pipeline Programs

@matthewakraft.bsky.social & I provide an overview of the GYO landscape to illustrate how the term GYO is used & describe variation in prgm features

edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

A 🧵 1/11
January 18, 2024 at 3:48 PM
🚨New Year, New WP!🚨

Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Teacher Pipeline Programs

@matthewakraft.bsky.social & I provide an overview of the GYO landscape to illustrate how the term GYO is used & describe variation in prgm features

edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

A 🧵 1/11
January 10, 2024 at 3:13 PM
And here’s the audio version from Weekend Edition for those who would rather listen!

www.npr.org/transcripts/...
Hi Blue Sky! This is my 1st post :)

I talked to Kavitha Cardoza about the need for research on & variation in Grow Your Own teacher programs.

"We're seeing GYO programs as a silver bullet but we don't know if they induce people to become teachers"

www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...
October 30, 2023 at 12:46 PM
Hi Blue Sky! This is my 1st post :)

I talked to Kavitha Cardoza about the need for research on & variation in Grow Your Own teacher programs.

"We're seeing GYO programs as a silver bullet but we don't know if they induce people to become teachers"

www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...
October 26, 2023 at 4:03 PM