NYC Mayor Eric Adams Promoting NYC Reads Initiative

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Empowering students with voice and choice: can drive changes in teaching and learning.

Sitting in a sea of white students as the only one who wasn’t, silence was my preferred tool for navigating those uncomfortable spaces …

Natalia Fierro, middle school teacher, Las Cruces, New Mexico | Photo credit: NEA

“If you don’t have a sense of belonging to an environment, you cannot function properly. So it’s very important, whether you are a teacher, whether you are a student, that you know that you are welcome in that environment and that conditions have been created for you to express yourself.”

-Dr. Tchoumi, NYFACS Principal

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NYC Public Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos.

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Dr. Elaine Ruiz López, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of International Leadership Charter High School

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A student at Choice Charter School in the South Bronx.