Nicole Baker Fulgham is speaking at CCDA today on the intersection between her Christian faith and vital involvement in the US public education system.
Former vice president of Teach for America and an experienced policy analyst, she has recent started an organization to mobilize faith communities for positive, service oriented engagement with schools in their neighborhoods.
She sees kids as profoundly disenfranchised in our broken education system, and models the role of a savvy, committed educator who does what she does because of her vibrant connection to Jesus.
Her stories of systemic transformation in places like Compton and Detroit are more than inspirational. They reflect unarguable, measurable change that has exponentially increased the number of college bound African American men and other populations that have been underserved and underheard.
Reversing entrenched and destructive trends in the school system is starkly difficult, but it can be done. It takes involvement, strategy, and grit.
How profound for her to example these things humbly, in the public classroom and eye, as a woman committed to the redemption of the kingdom, extending to shed common grace on the lives and desks of any child, regardless of race, background, or the prevailing "wisdom" of a broken system and a bent culture.
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