Ed Surge – Valerie Gates
“These were the words I heard as HR stamped my papers to complete my hiring. I know what they saw: A soft-spoken, middle-aged white woman who had nothing in common with the 2,800 students at an inner-city minority-majority high school in Utah. I was far from a novice teacher. In fact, I had been teaching for 21 years at that point in my career. And yet I started that year with fear, trepidation and zero confidence in my abilities as a teacher.”(more)