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…
News flash: We have been celebrating Black History Month all wrong. Black History Month (originally “Negro History Week”) was started by Carter G. Woodson in…
When I divulge to strangers that I am a high school English teacher, I am typically met with skepticism. “You teach teenage brats all day?…
As a Minnesotan, February is a signal that the warmth of spring is so close yet so far away (seriously, last Thursday the high was two…
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