Equity Deep Dive

How can teacher preparation programs successfully recruit and retain teachers of color?This edited volume delivers an actionable, evidence-based framework for diversifying the educator workforce through equity-centered teacher residencies. Editors Travis J. Bristol and Jacquelyn Ollison examine the structural expansion of teacher residency programs across California, offering a scalable blueprint for transforming teacher preparation models nationwide.Drawing directly from the California Teacher Residency Lab and its innovative "Equity Deep Dive" professional learning community, the text outlines how institutions identify complex operational challenges using an "Opportunity of Practice" framework. Readers examine how higher education and K–12 partnerships implement action research projects—spanning systematic data collection, rigorous analysis, and policy modification—to dismantle structural barriers that restrict the recruitment and retention of prospective teacher residents of color.By pairing systemic policy design with on-the-ground local insights, this essential volume bridges research and real-world execution. It provides university faculty, school leaders, and policy makers with concrete guidance to execute institutional reform, eliminate systemic inequities, and build a sustainable, ethnoracially diverse educator workforce.