Stories and strategies shared by Summit Learning teachers, in grades 4-12, across the country.
I am a biracial, brown-skinned, Mexican-American named after my Jewish grandpa. My parents were intentional about representing both sides of my heritage. We celebrated Hanukkah with my large extended Jewish family and Christmas with my abuelitos.
Ana Hernandez knew teaching was something she wanted to do early in life. As a young child living in a small town in northern Mexico, Hernandez would take pieces of chalk she received from nuns and use them while role-playing as a teacher for her cousins at home. Hernandez, now the principal at Cristo Rey […]
Colorado teacher Traci Underwood feels like a rookie teacher again after joining Summit Learning Fellows Program and watching her students become more rigorous and persevere with their learning.
