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Teachers to Biden: What we want from your administration - The Washington Post

Teachers to Biden: What we want from your administration

Teachers around the country are eager to see where President Biden and his Education Department take federal policy to improve public schools — especially after four years of the Trump administration, which did not try to hide its contempt for public education.

In this post, three educators who have decades of cumulative experience teaching students and teachers spell out where they hope the new administration will go in helping schools provide an education to all students that, as they explain, “is relevant and engages them in things that matter.”

The three are Jenna Fournel, Cosby Hunt and Aleta Margolis — all of them from the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Inspired Teaching, a nonprofit that provides innovative professional learning programs for teachers and seeks to transform the school experience for students from compliance-based to engagement-based.

In their following letter to Biden, Vice President Harris, and Miguel Cardona, who is expected to be confirmed by the Senate as education secretary, they urge a focus on “support of inquiry-based teaching and learning, media literacy, anti-racist pedagogy, prioritizing social studies and science, and centering teachers in our democracy.”

Fournel is director of digital programming and communications at the organization, where she leads its #Inspired2Learn initiative. A former high school English teacher, Fournel has served as director of communications for the National Council of Teachers of English. Contact Fournel at jenna@inspiredteaching.org or follow her on Twitter @inspireteach.

Hunt is director of youth programming and leads the organization’s Speak Truth and Real World History programs. Hunt is a National Board Certified teacher who has taught social studies to students and teachers in Washington, D.C., for more than 20 years. He is also the 2019 National History Day Teacher of the Year, and currently teaches AP U.S. History at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School in Southeast Washington. Contact Hunt at Cosby@inspiredteaching.org. CONTINUE READING: Teachers to Biden: What we want from your administration - The Washington Post

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