Mentorship Opportunities at NCTE

NCTE offers several opportunities each year for educators of color, scholars of color, and/or educators of students of color.

Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color

Purpose: To bring together early career scholars of color into a two-year experience grounded in close guidance, relationship building, and support.

What is the timeline?

• New cohorts form in evenly numbered years (2026, 2028, etc.)
• Early January: application opens
• March 15: application deadline
• Late May: notification

Where can I send questions? researchfoundation@ncte.org.

Early Career Educator of Color

Purpose: To support early career teachers of color as they build accomplished teaching careers in literacy education.

What is the timeline?

• New cohorts form annually
• Early January: application opens
• March 15: application deadline
• Late May: notification

Where can I send questions? leadershift@ncte.org.

Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching

Purpose: supports early childhood educators of color and educators who teach elementary children of color, children who are emerging bi/multilinguals, and children from low-income households in studying about culturally relevant pedagogies and generating, implementing, documenting, evaluating, assessing, and disseminating classroom practices and process reflections from work done in preK to fifth-grade classrooms.

What is the timeline?

• Applications open every odd-numbered year (2027, 2029, etc.)
• Early January: application opens
• April 15: application deadline
• June: notification

Where can I send questions? elementary@ncte.org.