#BlackTeachersMatter w/J.R.
Name: J.R. Rivera
Location: Miami FL USA
Where and what do you teach?
My name is J.R. Rivera and I currently teach at SLAM Miami High School in Miami and I teach math Geometry.
How long have you been a teacher?
I have been teaching for 7years.
What made you decide to be a teacher?
I saw an opportunity to make impact while making income when I was training for professional football and tutoring and training athletes on the side.
I realized the way most students soaked up the lessons I conveyed to them but also wanted the life lessons as well.
Name a moment where you helped a student get through a hard situation?
Unfortunately I had a student who loss his mother and was a freshman football player. I was able to help him channel some of his pain into purpose in the classroom and on the playing fields. I helped him identify a way to have his moms fight live on through him. He had started to struggle with attendance and effort prior to our heart to heart talks.
How important is Black males in education?
Black males in education are the missing link between a minority’s worldly imposed view of a black man and the possibilities of a black man. Black males bring a cool charismatic culture shock that is rare but needed for so many to value education.
If you could create your own subject at your school what would it be and why?
Morning purpose period where students would learn the power of their voice, skin and purpose.
Students would recite affirmations and read books for self development like my time management book “What’s Eating Up Your Time”.
What is your ultimate goal as a teacher?
My goal is for my lessons to be CPR to dying dreams of students.
Also to help students not allow their circumstances to dictate their life or level of success. In other words give them the blueprint to our work their situation.
If you could give school age you any advice, what would it be?
Compete in everything you do from being early to class to asking the questions no one else will, to works by towards all “A”s and laying off the excuses and distractions.
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