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Becoming a Man (BAM) Program Counselor, Youth Guidance
Chicago, Illinois
Matthew White works with Youth Guidance as the Becoming a Man (BAM) program counselor stationed at Tilden Career Community Academy High School, a public school located in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. He is a member of Educators 4 Excellence-Chicago.
When I look back on my own youth in Chicago—a city that is notoriously plagued with gun violence—I can think…
It’s June. The classroom walls are bare. The grit outlined empty spaces left behind by charts, posters, reading lists and student work jut out starkly…
While much of the education reform world was convening in Austin for the annual charter schools conference this week, I snuck off to Albuquerque for…
As we come to the end of another school year, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the teachers and parents who have dared to…
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