Elise is an IB English teacher at a public school in Minnesota. Toedt co-facilitates her school’s chapter of Dare 2 Be Real, a regional anti-racist student leadership group. As a poet, Elise views the classroom as a process-oriented space and is continually working to self-educate and engage in the learning process alongside students. Prior to teaching in the United States, Elise taught at an international IB school outside of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Dr. Ruha Benjamin, the first black woman to give a keynote at the International Society for Technology in Education Conference, provides insight on what we can do in our own networks and communities to bring about social change.
“We don’t participate in class because we’re not as smart as the white kids.” See how this Latina educator responded when Latina students expressed this negative self-perception.
Barbie is a school counselor at a dual-language elementary school in North Carolina, and a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board. Her passion for issues of race, immigration, gender and sexual justice is a strong influence in her school counseling program. In 2013, Garayúa-Tudryn founded Mariposas, a group for Latina girls that promotes empowerment by exploring issues of intersectionality, social emotional health and civic engagement.
Teachers often have mixed feelings as the new school year approaches, but one of the most common—and least talked about—is dread. Here’s what the TT Advisory Board had to say about it.
Marcy is a middle and high school Spanish teacher at Watkinson School in Hartford, Connecticut. During a seven-year hiatus from teaching she served as a college admissions counselor and earned her M.Ed. in curriculum. Beyond the campus, she delivers workshops at regional and national professional conferences, where she applies her training as a Critical Friendship coach and facilitator.