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The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice is a professional membership and activist organization dedicated to advancing the recruitment, development and retention of Black male educators in schools throughout Greater Philadelphia. Because all students benefit from the opportunity to learn from highly-effective, conscientious Black male educators.

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Feb 19, 2018

Slam poetry league founder: 'Teachers can't afford to be quiet' about race | We the People

Feb 19, 2018

Matthew Kay first learned to tell stories as a child growing up in Germantown, by creating them with his mom.

“We’d see an old woman walking a dog and she’d be like, ‘What’s her story?’ And I’d be like, ‘Well, that’s the dog’s grandmother,’ ” Kay said.

Today, Kay, a 34-year-old English teacher at the Science Leadership Academy, a magnet high school in Center City, helps Philly teens learn to tell their own stories through Philly Slam League, a slam poetry league he founded eight years ago that draws an average of 300 students a week from 22 schools across the city.

Feb 19, 2018

Teacher Recruitment Starting in High School

Feb 19, 2018

“Don’t come back here like I did,” a middle school teacher once told me. “Go out and do something special.”

That educator was sending the signal to an impressionable kid that teaching is a stale gig, not a higher calling. It’s a shame because America needs more teachers, and young people will be needed to fill an increasing number of open positions, particularly in districts serving minority and low-income students.

Feb 19, 2018

What We're Reading

"I can remember a time when I looked and sounded like my students. That helps me see myself in them, and all they’re capable of. I hope they can see themselves in me."

The Real Reason Black Kids Benefit From Black Teachers
David Jackson
The New York Times
April 15, 2017

“I teach because I want to be the face in the classroom that I didn’t see growing up.”

— Sterling Grimes, High School English, Mastery Charter School Pickett Campus

“I look up to these brothers for their continued dedication inside the classroom and out in the community.”

"I had someone to relate to, and I didn't feel like the elephant in the room. It was a relief."

—Tamir Harper, Science and Leadership Academy

“I was in criminal justice for the first half of my career, but I realized that the best place to fight for equality was the classroom.”

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