Grow Your Own Educator | Montana University System

Published: May 16, 2022

Author/Pilot: TJ Schwartz

Category Tags: NEWS,PROJECTS

To address educator recruitment and retention issues in rural Montana and Indian Country, the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education launched the Montana Grow Your Own Educator Program. The program is open to Montana schools to submit an application who meet a defined criteria. The program will fund post-secondary and K-12 partnerships to implement strategies that develop the pipeline of K-12 students entering the teaching profession with the intent to serve communities with acute educator shortages.

Schools can apply for the program at https://mus.edu/grow/index.html.

MDC was awarded a Montana video contract to help create a recap video to showcase the implementation of the Grow Your Own Educator program through the Montana University System. MDC filmed students and teachers from Havre and Browning for the video.

Grow Your Own Educator | Montana University System