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…
Student data. Standardized testing. Accountability. These words set off a lot of big feelings among parents, educators and policymakers — especially fear and anger. Controversies…
Twenty-one months have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency. With a new school year underway, the United States (U.S.) public school system…
In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to cease publication of six of the prolific writer’s works due to his demeaning caricatures of non-white ethnicities. This…
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