Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

EdSurge is worked up to introduce the 2022-2023 EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellows, all educators who had been chosen via a aggressive utility course of and, over the subsequent yr, will write first-person essays about how their wants have modified, how their college students’ wants have modified and the way their faculty group has supported scholar and instructor well-being as challenges in schooling persist.

This cohort of people—our second annual—represents a variety of experiences, backgrounds, identities and views. EdSurge will publish and elevate their tales beginning within the fall and persevering with all through the upcoming faculty yr.

This second cohort contains eight gifted educators educating at public, constitution, unbiased and parochial colleges, from Hawaii to Michigan:

• Whitney Aragaki (she/they), highschool biology and environmental science instructor at Waiākea High School in Hilo, Hawai‘i.
• Katerra Billy (she/her), numerous learner educator at KIPP East Academy in New Orleans.
• Isabel Bozada-Jones (she/her), deeper studying coordinator with Reynoldsburg City Schools in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
• Alice Domínguez (she/her), instructor of English language arts, yoga and mindfulness at Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, California.
• Patrick Harris II (he/him), writer from Detroit, center faculty English instructor and dean of college students at The Roeper School.
• Matt Homrich-Knieling (he/him), youth organizer with MIStudentsDream, a Detroit-based coalition centered on immigration and schooling justice, and former center faculty English language arts instructor.
• Avery Thrush (she/her), sixth grade science instructor at STEM Prep Academy in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Corey Winchester (he/him), historical past and social science instructor and workers coordinator of Students Organized Against Racism (SOAR) at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois.

In the approaching months, these fellows will discover points associated to the next questions:

• How have the pandemic, financial hardship and racial unrest exacerbated inequities in schooling, and the way are educators and faculty communities addressing them?
• How has the pandemic and its aftershocks raised consciousness round psychological well being and well-being, and the way are educators and faculty communities responding?
• How are the wants and experiences of educators and college students altering throughout what seems to be an inflection level within the historical past of American schooling—and the way are faculty communities responding?
• How are colleges supporting college students and educators in identification exploration and growth and/or relationship-building?
• How are faculty fashions, educational practices and different points of educating and studying altering to satisfy educators and college students the place they’re?
• How are educators and faculty communities supporting the entire youngster by taking a look at what all kids have in frequent and have to succeed, and addressing what kids of totally different backgrounds, experiences and sources uniquely have to succeed?
• What new challenges have emerged within the educating occupation, what current ones have turn into extra advanced, and the way are educators and faculty leaders navigating them?

The EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship first launched in the summertime of 2021, with an inaugural cohort of seven esteemed fellows who, over the course of the yr, penned deeply private essays highlighting the myriad points educators, faculty leaders and learners confronted within the midst of the pandemic.