LaTesa Brown
I am currently a sixth-grade teacher of multi-subjects and a critical reading interventionist in Flint Michigan. I am a teacher at Doyle Ryder Elementary School. I was also selected by my principal to be a “process champion” for promoting positive school culture for children, teachers, and staff, to be a catalyst for change in our building.
I have over 20 years’ experience as a teacher of children in general educational settings, alternative educational settings and as a teacher of children with exceptionalities. Over my years within this teacher calling/activism, I have been blessed to grow many “first loves of learning” by building trusting relationships with marginalized students that were flowers in concrete cracks. I live for empowerment and advocacy in my community and nation. I believe in raising the bar of my students; ancestral greatness already lives within them!
I am proud to be a positive disruptor. I care about the future generations that have been unseen for far too long. As an educational conference speaker/presenter, I work on the front lines to create and share ways to affect change against the adverse societal conditions caused by cultural-biased practices. I am compassionate about the power of learning, and I do not believe in square pegs being thrown to the side because they do not fit into the round holes of society. Demographics and environmental complexities that are beyond childhood controls should not drive trajectories, nor produce life-time labels!
Loving our blackness and liberating our mindsets will move mountains! Teaching is my ‘BEAST-MODE’ and I raise “Education-Warriors”! We breaking yokes, curses, and boundaries out here! “I was once unseen but now, I Am Light” will stand as the liberation mantra that replaces the lies of racism and inequity. Black Teachers Rock and I’m here for it!