Madison Park Tech Voc Grad Now the Educator Podcast FEBRUARY 2020

2020-02-26

Lessons taught during Black History Month FEBRUARY 2020 PODCAST - Settenah Wright is a graduate of Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, where she now teaches English as a Second Language. She grew up in Roxbury, MA, attending the Boston Public Schools and spent two years living in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is where her ESL teaching career began. In this episode, Ms. Wright shares her classroom lessons during Black History Month, and the local connections Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and Barack...

Lessons taught during Black History Month

FEBRUARY 2020 PODCAST - Settenah Wright is a graduate of Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, where she now teaches English as a Second Language. She grew up in Roxbury, MA, attending the Boston Public Schools and spent two years living in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is where her ESL teaching career began. In this episode, Ms. Wright shares her classroom lessons during Black History Month, and the local connections Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and Barack Obama have to the Roxbury neighborhood.

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ADDED BONUS: Ms. Wright shared a video with her students while standing at the steps of Dr. Martin Luther King's Boston residence, 397 Massachusetts Avenue. Video can be found here.

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