Brigitte Tshishimbi is a Senior Teach Plus Pennsylvania Policy Fellow. She is a department chair and teaches English at Freire Charter Middle School in Philadelphia.
If We Don't Teach Culturally Affirming Books, We Might as Well Ban Them
I closed my eyes, waiting anxiously for Mr. T to announce today’s American History lesson, hoping that we would be moving on to a new topic. I cringed as I heard the familiar phrase, “We’re going to...
