“In a significant step toward addressing the ongoing teacher shortage in rural and middle Georgia, the Baldwin County School District has officially launched its ‘Grow Your Own’ Teacher Program. The initiative, developed in collaboration with prominent post-secondary institutions in the middle Georgia region, aims to create a sustainable and replicable model for building a robust teacher pipeline.
The program’s key features include early exposure to the teaching profession for potential middle and high school students through a prescribed Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) pathway. Students enrolled in the CTAE Teaching as a Profession Pathway will have hands-on teaching experiences, as well as the opportunity to have paid work-based learning in a Baldwin County school.”