But Chavez and other
EEE students now know that both perceptions and expectations can be reset with more awareness, and that small actions can have large impacts.
Not exact matches
For Genesis Chavez, a first - grade teacher and master's
student in the
EEE program, the classes have made her reflect on feeling either «hyper - visible or invisible» to her teachers as a
student.
When she read an article on deliberate «not learning» in one of her
EEE classes, she recognized her own experiences as a child, and wondered how many of her
students also refused to learn out of pride in the face of disrespect.
The
EEE program started in 2011 as a way to bridge a growing achievement gap for
students in an increasingly diverse district, which spans the high - income suburbs outside Washington, DC, and the immigrant - rich, economically challenged communities farther from the capital.