Samuel Texeira
Sam Texeira moved to Chicago in 2020 after working in Boston Public Schools (BPS) where he taught History, African American Studies, and Civics at the Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. While at Henderson, Sam facilitated the school's "Strong Men Strong Leaders" organization, one dedicated to supporting young men of color through civic and leadership training, student-led social-emotional support, athletic competition, and forums on social justice and the lived shared and diverse experiences of men of color.
In the spring of 2019, Sam was awarded a Fund for Teachers Fellowship where he traveled to Salvador da Bahia and Rio de Janeiro and Salvador Brazil to study resistance to racial oppression and anti-Blackness from a historical and modern context. Later that year, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley visited Sam's classroom, and recognized him for Public Schools Week. Sam participated in the first BPS Male Educators of Color (MEOC) cohort and was named a winner of the 2019 Boston Public Schools Educator of the Year Award.
He currently teaches at George Westinghouse College Prep in Chicago and sits on the board of City Year Boston. He has co-facilitated professional developments for the Chicago Foundation for Education and co-authored "Waking Up Woke: Exploring Black Female Youth Critical Consciousness and Sociopolitical Development" which was published by Teachers College Record in 2021. Sam is earning a PhD in Policy Studies in Urban Education from the University of Illinois Chicago.