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Education-to-Career Pathways: Representation Matters with Bernard Rahming
Representation matters. Tune in to hear Bernard Rahming, the Milwaukee Program Director of the Literacy Lab's Leading Men Fellowship, share his passion for bridging the education opportunity gap and diversifying the teaching workforce.
The Leading Men Fellowship is a transformative organization supports young men of color who have recently graduated from high school as they participate in a year-long, residency-style experience providing literacy support to pre-kindergarten students. During their experience, the young men have access to robust coaching and professional development opportunities that equip them with the skills needed to transform the lives of students – and their own.
Don’t miss this episode! You can find out how to support the fellowship and the young men creating successful pathways to diversify the teaching workforce.
Episode Highlights
04:08 - Our first challenge is really finding young men that are wanting to do something, wanting to give back or wanting to serve, and then showing them this is a way they can serve. We kind of have to address that harm first of all, but to show them that they have a role that they can actually play in being that person that they wish they had. They can be that young teacher that they wish they might have had when they were in elementary school.
05:30 - Sometimes we're surprised by the young man that that turns out to be like, "I found my passion and my calling through teaching." But I think really, the first thing is commitment.
08:32 - That's a SEEDS approach. It's an acronym that stands for how to be sensitive, how to encourage, how to educate, how to develop skills, and ultimately, how do you develop a self-image within a young person. SEEDS is so great that we actually kind of very softly or maybe secretly use it with the young men themselves.
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Guest Bio:
Bernard Rahming, II
Milwaukee Program Director, the Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship
Bernard Rahming is the Program Director for the Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship Program in Milwaukee. He is passionate about building school-to-career pathways and believes education is a vehicle for empowerment. Bernard earned his master’s degree in Community Psychology from Concordia University-Portland and his bachelor’s degree in Math and Psychology from Marquette University.
