[YEP-DC] New YEP-DC Blog Post: Helping Struggling Youth Find Success, a Q&A with Matt Fiteny

As many of our readers know, direct service in urban education is difficult work. Teachers and other school staff serve many roles, from educator to social worker to surrogate-parent. It takes an incredible amount of passion and patience to reach the most hardened and defeated students, whose lives have been so difficult that putting up barriers and developing negative behaviors are the only way they have coped. Now imagine the type of person it takes to reach an entire school full of students whose needs are so great that the district could not meet them. Matt Fiteny, director of instruction at the Maya Angelou Young Adult Learning Center (YALC), is one of those people. Recess blogger Amanda Klein talked to Matt about the challenges -- and rewards -- of his work, and he offered his advice for others who want to work with at-risk youth. Read the full Q&A, "From Disconnected to Fully Engaged: Helping Struggling Youth Find Success," here: http://www.youngedprofessionals.org/yep-dc-recess-blog/from-disconnected-to-fully-engaged-helping-struggling-youth-find-success

This is Amanda's last Q&A for Recess. We are currently looking for a blogger to continue this monthly feature. For details and requirements, please email yepdc.communications@gmail.com. 

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