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Tania Figueroa is a fourth-grade teacher at Patrick Henry Public School in Chicago.

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Tania Figueroa
Posted inElementary to High School

TEACHER VOICE: ‘My students are not expected to disappear into the cultural melting pot the way I was’

by Tania Figueroa February 26, 2018December 7, 2021

When I was a student, as the child of Mexican immigrants, I felt pressure to leave my own stories and experiences outside to fit into my classrooms’ cultures. I did what I was asked in the way I was asked because I knew I was expected to adapt to the educational environment around me, not […]

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