Guest Blogger
Teacher
Los Angeles, California
Tunji Adebayo is a teacher at View Park Preparatory Charter High School in Los Angeles and a member of Educators 4 Excellence-Los Angeles, a teacher-led education policy and advocacy nonprofit.
Music is everywhere. We play it constantly in our cars and homes, and listen to it on our phones as…
Students often arrive in my classroom believing the outside world expects them to fail. Through TV and other media, my…
We must find the strength to not give up on them, and to ensure, in turn, that they won’t give up on themselves. …
The first round of parent teacher conferences recently wrapped up at my school in South Los Angeles. After the last…
Many young people see belonging as a quest to fit in, but it’s so much deeper than that. Belonging means accepting, celebrating, and including our…
Erika Asikoye is the Director of the Freedom School Literacy Academy (FSLA) at The Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The FSLA, for…
Last week, I had a consulting call with a potential client (a white teacher), who teaches in a predominantly white school/neighborhood and wants to engage…
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