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…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Give My Students a Sense of Belonging
May 11, 2018 by Wynter Pitts Wynter Pitts is a first-grade teacher at Citizens Academy Southeast, a Title I school in Cleveland with a 97 percent Black student enrollment. While I was in the hallway getting…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Support Latino Students Seeking the American Dream
May 10, 2018 by Jennifer Pisonero Jennifer Pisonero is a Black Latina Spanish teacher at University Preparatory Academy (UPA) Middle School in Detroit, as part of the Bright Loritos Language Immersion program. Nearly 83 percent of…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Mitigate the School-to-Prison Pipeline
May 09, 2018 by Charisma Ricksy Charisma Ricksy is a third-year educator and grade-level lead at Baton Rouge University Prep Elementary, a Title I school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My parents were privileged with choosing from many…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Inspire the Next Generation of Latino Writers and Debaters
May 08, 2018 by EdTrust Since 2014, Raymond Arroyo has been a seventh-grade English teacher at Creston Academy, a Title I school in the Bronx, New York, where 86 percent of the student population is…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Fight for Educational Equity
May 07, 2018 by Zachary Wright Zachary Wright is the 12th-grade world literature and AP Literature teacher at Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, where he has been since 2010, having taught nearly every senior the school…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Be a Part of the Solution
July 05, 2017 by Sarah Giddings Sarah Giddings is a National Board Certified teacher in social studies and history with the Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium in Ypsilanti, Michigan, an alternative school serving at-risk youth countywide. She…