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High school humanities teacher Christian Starling opened this year’s Black History Month assembly with a welcome speech that reflected on the special importance of studying history for an oppressed people. A Harvard graduate, Mr. Starling joined the CCSC faculty this year. His speech drove home how fortunate we are to have him at CCSC. The full speech is here: Continue reading “Know Your History, Claim Your Humanity”
Middle school humanities teacher Mandy Henry is the next in our “Why I Teach” series. Like many of her CCSC colleagues, Ms. Henry brings a deep commitment to social justice to her classroom, a commitment sharpened by working in a New York school district, where the “stark contrasts” of resources and expectations between two schools in the same neighborhood stoked her passion for her profession. Continue reading “Why I Teach: Mandy Henry”
It almost goes without saying that CCSC teachers share a strong commitment to social justice, to closing the “opportunity gap” in America by providing their students with a first-rate public education. Here, in the second in our series of Why I Teach posts, math teacher Tabitha Schober writes about her commitment to being “an agent of social change.” Continue reading “Why I Teach: Tabitha Schober”