Because our “helping hand” or our financial commitment, which, in addition to education majors, also focuses on architectural design or history majors, it is with great honor that Johnathan T. Leonard Memorial Scholarships & Grants is pleased to announce it has made a gift (2025 Gift Announcement) to Tuskegee University, with preferred allocation students seeking a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree. The reason that this announcement is so exciting is that Tuskegee’s school of architecture, known as the Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science or TSACS, named after the first accredited African-American architect, Robert Robinson Taylor, also the first African-American to receive an Architecture degree from MIT, believes in the “power of architecture and construction science to uplift the human condition and give form to society’s highest aspirations.” This Tuskegee belief exemplifies our helping hand or our financial commitment, which, in addition to education majors, also focuses on architectural design or history majors. Read about Johnathan’s Calling (Here).
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Announcing Gift to Tuskegee University
Announcing Gift to Morehouse College
Because our “helping hand” or our financial commitment is primarily to education majors with a focus on future teachers, it is with great honor that Johnathan T. Leonard Memorial Scholarships & Grants is pleased to announce it has made a gift (2024 Gift Announcement) to Morehouse College’s Minority Male Teachers Program. The reason that this announcement is so exciting is that the vision of the Morehouse Education Department is to “close the representation gap” for underrepresented minorities “in classrooms, schools, districts, and educational leadership roles.” It is this vision that aligns so well with our commitment to raising the awareness of the underrepresentation of men and underrepresented people groups in the field of education. Read about Johnathan’s Calling (Here).
Press Release
For Release July 2020
The Teacher Shortage
Great Expectations – It is not simply about a diverse teacher workforce, but about the success of all students regardless of what community they come from. And even though male teachers who self-identify as Black only make up 2 percent of the teaching workforce,1 studies support the idea that diversity and inclusion in teaching increases the performance of elementary and secondary students from underrepresented people groups2 and that teachers who come from underrepresented people groups who teach students from their same underrepresented people group are about the child’s ability to complete high school than teachers from other demographic groups.3
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