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Posts Tagged ‘teaching matters’

“Teaching Matters” forum encourages great teachers and community support for them

By Anne Hoffman | March 8, 2013 | 8

A gymnasium full of teachers, teenagers and community members are sitting around small tables and jotting down the names of their favorite teachers on blue Post-It notes at Edna Brewer Middle School. Stephanie Benjamin, a 17-year-old peer educator with Youth Uprising, met her favorite teacher during elementary school in Oakland. She reads from her Post-It:…

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