Madison Park Tech Voc Grad Now the Educator Podcast FEBRUARY 2020

Lessons taught during Black History Month FEBRUARY 2020 PODCAST - Settenah Wright is a graduate of Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, where she now teaches English as a Second Language. She grew up in Roxbury, MA, attending the Boston Public Schools and spent two years living in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is where her ESL teaching career began. In this episode, Ms. Wright shares her classroom lessons during Black History Month, and the local connections Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and Barack Obama have to the Roxbury neighborhood. Click here for a transcript of this podcast. MORE ABOUT JFYNET Today, JFYNetWorks addresses the college readiness problem by providing focused blended learning programs in high school to help students build the academic skills they need to enter college or technical training earning academic credit. The JFYNetWorks blended program model — infusing specialized online content into the regular curriculum — also facilitates scalability, as the low cost of the online platform can easily be expanded to entire schools. To learn more visit JFYNet.org Proven Results Accuplacer Prep Programs JFYNet Partner Schools Early College Program ADDED BONUS: Ms. Wright shared a video with her students while standing at the steps of Dr. Martin Luther King's Boston residence, 397 Massachusetts Avenue. Video can be found here.