Guest Blogger
Teacher, Broadway Elementary
Los Angeles, California
Jesse Balderas teaches sixth grade at Para Los Ninos Charter School. He is in his sixth year teaching and has served as a facilitator, which involves providing personal development for other teachers.
He is a member of Educators 4 Excellence-Los Angeles and co-author of One School of Thought: Moving Toward Common Core.
As educators, we witness very important developmental stages in our students’ lives. It is during these years when students really…
One day, about two years ago, a box was dropped in my classroom and a training session was scheduled to…
I don’t know about you, but I can’t just sit by and watch. It’s time for action. The latest battleground in the national war on…
In 2016, I gave money to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. It was and remains the first and only time I have ever given a…
About two years ago this time I had to write an explainer piece when the NAACP pushed for a moratorium on public charter schools. The…
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