Guest Blogger
Manhood Development Program Instructor at West Oakland Middle School
Oakland, California
Bankh Akintunde is a native of Oakland and the Manhood Development program instructor at West Oakland Middle School.
Imagine walking into a school every day and being taught by someone who looks like you. Imagine that person shares your upbringing, the music you listen to, or simply represents a living roadmap to the future—a walking embodiment of success.…
At the turn of the century, in 1999, I was graduating from high school, motivated to enter the teaching profession with a passion to reform…
As I sat with my 7-year-old daughter and her friends in a movie theater for a showing of “Frozen II,” I was fascinated. No, it wasn’t…
There’s a major force in the education world that has attempted to claim ownership over the term “equity.” From tweets questioning the value of literacy…
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