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…
Reyna Morales lives in Oakland, California, and is the parent of two students at a high-performing charter school located in an area with a dearth…
“I am a white ally,” the 30 something-year-old white teacher declared emphatically in the diversity and inclusion professional development session. She snapped her fingers to…
A month ago, as Amanda Gorman shared her beautiful prose during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration, students at KIPP Rise Academy in Newark had…
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