52) "The Insightful Teacher" (Rakim Amalu Jenkins)

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English - December 31, 2020 04:28 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB
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In this episode, I'm honored to end the year with high school history teacher and motivational speaker Rakim Amalu Jenkins. In our conversation, he shares his personal journey into education, how he evolved into "The Insightful Teacher", the impact and future of the"Teachers for Good Trouble" movement, and much more! To learn more about Rakim's work, you can visit his website at https://linktr.ee/theinsightfulteacher or follow him on Instagram (@theinsightfulteacher).

BIO: Rakim Amalu Jenkins is a high school history teacher, motivational speaker, and life coach based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2013 alumnus of The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York and a 2014 alumni corps member of Teach For America-New York City. He is also a recent graduate of Relay Graduate School of Education (MAT). Popularly known as "The Insightful Teacher", he uses insights from his life, history, and classroom to speak truth to power, and he believes that we can collectively create a better education system and world for our youth.

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