Member Spotlight

This month's ESP Spotlight is on Taylor Hargrave, an instructional assistant at George L. Carrington Middle School in Durham.

Several years ago, I attended a high school graduation and had the privilege of hearing a former student during her salutatorian speech speak about how I had inspired her when she was in my math class. It was one of those memorable moments that makes teaching worthwhile.

NCAE member and Wake County educator, Ginny Clayton, shares how she came to understand that sharing her whole identity could help make her a better teacher.

Kevin Mayhue, a data entry manager at Brightwood Elementary School in Guilford County said after paying rent, car note, utilities and other bills the $1,576 he and many of his colleagues bring home bi-weekly leaves little for food at the end of the month. “This is why a lot of us [classified staff] have to have other sources of income to survive.”

Fifty years ago, Carol Bolden Stone-El walked through the doors of Pearsontown Elementary School in Durham as a kindergarten student. In a few years, she plans to retire from the place where her public education journey began.

Hillside High School educator and NCAE member Jahara Davis believes anything is possible for her students. To help encourage them, she begins each day with an affirmation, something she started eight years ago while teaching at another high school.

One of the reasons Antonio Moses became an educator was to have representation in the classroom.

Lori Farrington, a member in Forsyth County, says she can’t recall a time when she wasn’t involved in NCAE.

Peck Elementary has 286 students, almost all Black and Latino, in a predominately Black, Latino and white working-class area of Greensboro. Member Shelley Doolen had been a classroom teacher there for four years when she began going to meetings with other GCAE members who had signed up to be building leaders.

Mihoshoty Yamaguchi is a Math Teacher in Rockingham County, North Carolina