HOW CHANGE-MAKING TEACHERS CREATE BOTTOM-UP REFORMS.

BLACK youth; TEACHERS; MIDDLE school teachers

As other teachers look to become change-makers at their schools, Dr. Sumner and Ms. Holmes illuminate one possible path. When she had started there 11 years earlier, the division between course levels at her school was so extreme that teachers said they could tell whether a course was advanced or standard level by the skin color of the students enrolled. At 20% Black and Latinx, Ms. Holmes' classes were not as racially diverse as the school as a whole, but she described them as more diverse than her past courses. [Extracted from the article]

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