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What Is #UbranEdChat
A Twitter chat Thursday nights from 7:00-8:00PM CST
for all urban education stakeholders!
Be sure to follow @UrbanEdChat on Twitter for the latest news and info about #UrbanEdChat as well as to view the chat topic for the chat on Thursday nights.
This Week's Host
Ruben Brosbe & Akiea Gross
A former New York City Teaching Fellow and 2012 graduate of the the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ruben Brosbe teaches fourth-graders in central Harlem. He is a founder of #TeachResistance and one of the authors of a toolkit including lesson plans and resources for K-5 educators.
He believes young people make the best activists because they inherently care about fairness and kindness for all.
Akiea Gross is a Kindergarten Teacher at Harlem Village Academies and the Founder and Educator-in-Chief of Equitable Schools, Inc., a new nonprofit organization on a mission to develop strategies to close the opportunity gap for students of color through addressing the racial and cultural inequities in schools. She is also the creator of #BlackTeachersMatter and #MyBlackTeacher, two initiatives started to address the racial and cultural inequities in teacher workforce.