#37 | That Black Male Teacher “Hits Different” - w/ Jason Muse - SFUSD Educator

Did you have a Black male teacher growing up? In high school? Middle school? Elementary school? The numbers go down as the grades get lower. But thankfully we have people like Jason.

Jason is an elementary school teacher based in San Francisco, California. He’s been teaching in some capacity for 13 plus years, and his passion for teaching is rooted in his passion for mentorship and commitment to ensuring young people have what they need for self-actualization.

Today, we discuss:

1. How to guide boys and cultivate a healthy relationship with anger

2. How Jason has achieved longevity in the teaching profession and made it sustainable

3. How adopting a broad definition of mentorship can be liberating and lead to impact in your classroom

4. Some encouraging things for male elementary school teachers at the start of this school year

(0:00) Class Session

(2:35) Jason introduces himself

(5:30) Ashanti and Jason share their teacher personas/masks

(14:00) The challenge of giving boys the space to express themselves, especially anger

(18:30) Achieving longevity in the teaching profession

(22:40) Infusing more mentoring in our communities, and embracing a broader definition of “mentor”

(32:40) Seeing former students in a mentorship role

(36:00) The role of Black male educators in elementary schools

(43:40) Jason’s message for all educators

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