Really good read! Hard History: Teaching the truths we don’t like to talk about Matt Scialdone doesn’t care about silence. He’s the kind of teacher that will lean back on his desk and wait for students to answer his question, no matter how long it takes. His classroom at Middle Creek High School is warm, and that makes the silence more uncomfortable. He jokes that it almost feels more like a bunker, and that’s because it is — it’s a windowless, glorified closet that’s just big enough to hold his 30 students. He had asked students in his African American literature class in fall 2017 a question about the Middle Passage during their first ... Continue reading... https://greensboro.com/news/educati...cle_3030bd86-14cd-11eb-a81a-57e73cf6553b.html
