Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Show That the American Dream is Indeed Possible
August 05, 2019 by Marc Beitia We are each a sum of our life experiences. Opportunities chosen and those passed up. Chances taken, or not. Risks accepted. Fears overcome. And passion found. Thirty years ago, I found…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: Because My Students’ Future is Full of Promise
August 05, 2019 by Robert Hand I teach Family and Consumer Sciences and Leadership at Mount Vernon High School. Mount Vernon, Washington is located in the heart of the Skagit Valley in the northwest part of…
Why I Teach: To Make Black Boy Success Not the Exception But the Expectation
August 05, 2019 by Jessica Duenas Growing up in East New York, when I was still surrounded by the innocence of youth, I had no idea how many odds were systemically stacked against me. My parents…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Fulfill a Sense of Community
August 05, 2019 by Kareem Neal For the past 12 years, I have taught students with severe cognitive delays at Maryvale High School in Phoenix. Maryvale is one of the largest high schools in Arizona with…
Profiles in Education Equity: Kyle Strickland, the Kirwan Institute
July 16, 2019 by Letisha Marrero Kyle Strickland is the senior legal analyst at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity. His work focuses on local and national civil rights issues, criminal justice…
Getting To & Through College: Tiffany Jones
June 05, 2019 by Gabriela Montell In the first installment of our new series, an African American, first-generation college graduate recalls the struggles of going to and paying for college while pursuing a Ph.D. A recent…
Profiles in Education Equity: Operation Restoration
April 17, 2019 by Letisha Marrero Syrita Steib-Martin and Annie Freitas cofounded Operation Restoration, a New Orleans-based organization that helps women who have been impacted by incarceration get the education and resources they need to reenter…
Profiles in Education Equity: Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, Stockton Schools Initiative
March 26, 2019 by Letisha Marrero Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, Ph.D., is a scholar-activist and education equity policy advocate. Currently, she is interim director for Stockton Schools Initiative (SSI) and an Ethnic Studies professor at Sacramento State University.…