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Jeff Duncan-Andrade grew up in Oakland, the youngest of seven children. He remembers one day when his mother sat him down, showed him a glass of water, and asked him if it was half full or half empty.
“My mom is good with the trick questions where it seems like there’s no right answer,” said the Oakland high school English teacher, who also teaches Raza Studies and Education at San Francisco State University, to the packed delegate hall. “She said how you choose to answer that question is how you will live your life.”
Duncan-Andrade, a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education and the keynote speaker at the CFT Convention, related this to what the late Tupac Shakur, a poet, rapper, and actor whose parents were active in the Black Panther Party, had to say. He said his students still find the words of Shakur, killed in , meaningful.
“No matter what you think of him, I challenge you to find anyone with the reach to teach of ‘Pac in late modernity’,” he said, joking he could safely hide a $ bill in a Shakespeare book in the classroom, but in a book of Shakur’s, it would be found quickly. “It’s not that they’re not interested in literacy — they’re not interested in literacy we’re giving them.”
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Jeff Duncan-Andrade
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Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D., is Professor of Latina/o Studies and Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. He is also a founder of the Roses in Concrete Community School, a community responsive lab school in East Oakland and the Community Responsive Education Group. As a classroom teacher and school leader in East Oakland (CA) for the past 29 years, his pedagogy has been widely studied and acclaimed for producing uncommon levels of social and academic success for students. Duncan-Andrade lectures around the world and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on effective practices in schools. He has written two books and his third book with Harvard Press is due out Spring In , Duncan-Andrade was tapped to be a Commissioner on the National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future (NCTAF) and in was part of the great educators invited to the White House on National Teacher Appreciation Day by President Obama. He is also the Laureate for the prestigious Brock International Prize in Education. Duncan-Andrade is also consistently ranked as one of the nation’s most influential scholars by EdWeek’s Public Influence Rankings.
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