Former educator Brandon Brown is now a Billboard-charting educational rapper who performs...
Brandon Brown poses for photos in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Brown, a former history teacher and assistant high school principal, is now a Billboard-charting educational rapper who performs around the U.S. He founded School Yard Rap, a California-based company that produces music about historical Black, Latino and Indigenous people often not found in traditional textbooks.
to take different approaches in the classroom that would challenge an education system many believe doesn’t allow for critical thinking and forces a narrow worldview.We want to foster conversation and highlight the intersection of race, identity and culture in one of America's most diverse cities.
In his classroom, Deville, who is white, avoids framing individuals as either “villains or plaster heroes,” and he incorporates more than just European and white perspectives on historical events. In a unit on Christopher Columbus, Deville said he spends time creating a vision of the Western Hemisphere prior to European contact and does not diminish the violent ways Native Americans were treated.
For many teachers, presenting students with different perspectives is the most important part of the job.
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