In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center interviewed 150 immigrant women who left Latin American nations in search of a better life in the United States. Most of them landed in physically crippling, low-paying jobs that make our lives easier but have rendered them voiceless and invisible.
Jozette Martinez is a middle and high school business teacher in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado, where she is an eighth-generation resident. She leads her eighth-grade AVID team and coaches her school’s Student Board of Education. She is also an adjunct professor in business and technology, a district trainer of teachers and a national teacher leader instructor through the Center for Teaching Quality, with a focus on social justice, equity and inclusion. She is a writer, guardian, sister, daughter and friend.
Late on a November afternoon in 2017, I got an email from a professional acquaintance telling me about an informal project in Boulder, Colorado. A group of parents, some of whom happened to also be professors and staff
The drawing is a visual description that seeks to portray enslaved people as enjoying a relatively stable home life with people playing music, dancing and courting.
Episode 1, Season 3 Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that
Angela is the librarian for the secondary campuses of Hutto Independent School District. She has been a librarian for 24 years at the elementary, middle school and high school levels. Hartman is a member of the Holocaust Education Network of the Olga Lengyel Institute and has extensive training in Holocaust education. She plans and coordinates campus, district and community-wide programs that focus on civil rights, social justice and Holocaust education. Hartman is also a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.