- My name is Rachelle Stone.
I am a fourth grade teacher at Huegel Elementary School
in Madison, Wisconsin.
I think about my own experience as a child
growing up in a predominantly white school system
and how that sort of impacted how I felt
about my identity as a black person.
And I went into education thinking,
“How can I disrupt and change
"the way that my experience was for kids of color?”
specifically black and brown kids of color.
I think being a teacher is just one way
that a student could have an interaction
with a person of color,
and hopefully that trajectory will then impact
the rest of their education.
There's lots of studies now that saying
even having one black teacher will impact students
in a positive way.
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