It is transformative to have mentors and teachers that look like you...I want [my students] to feel like they can relate to me and see that they can achieve whatever they put their minds to. The sky's the limit.

As a teacher I have a responsibility to focus on creating an environment where my students have the space to think deeply and learn.

Regardless of what a student wants to do, they deserve someone that’s going to push them and support them along the way...I try to connect with my students on some level so that they feel they belong. They belong to a community, and somebody is always looking out for them.

Teachers College graduates have the courage and imagination to create learning spaces that support more socially just schooling in our diverse, pluralistic, democratic society. Regardless of their specialization, all teachers must be prepared to engage in and facilitate conversations across differences, and to grapple with the issues their students are facing both within and outside of the classroom, from economic and racial injustice to climate change.

There is no age requirement for being a mentor or mentee. We all need to be both at times.

Being an educator is not a career an individual can do alone. Support from other people in the same field is critical.

Teachers are heroes. Doctors save lives, but teachers help to create and shape them. What work could be more valuable?

As educators, we have a great responsibility to understand how exposure to this content can influence children’s trajectories. Educators need more tools and resources...They need more support from communities at large, starting at a policy level.

By engaging critically with these game-changing technologies, teachers can prepare their students to ask deep questions about the texts, materials, and experiences they encounter that are driven by generative AI.

Teaching is not complete until the student has learned…with our teachers, we want them to leave [TC] knowing that effective readings and instruction are a form of social justice.

Mentoring and supporting young people is what fuels me everyday...…As a woman and a person of Asian descent, I feel compelled to advocate for change. How can we rebuild the system?