Profiles in Teaching Like a Rebel: Liz Kleinrock
By Paul Barnwell
As a content creator for Curio Learning, Paul Barnwell interviews and profiles Curio users to highlight expertise, teacher rebeldom, and general awesomeness. Barnwell also teaches freshman English part-time at a public high school in New Hampshire, writes as a freelancer for various publications, and works on a farm.
Here is his profile of fellow Curio team member Liz Kleinrock:
Liz Kleinrock is behind the wheel, dealing with Los Angeles’s neverending, late afternoon stop-and-go traffic on Santa Monica Boulevard. Clear skies and pleasant temperatures prevail after four straight days of torrential rain during the LA teacher strike.
It’s Martin Luther King Jr., Day and supposed to be a day off from work.
But not for Kleinrock.
“Being a rebel teacher means to be unafraid and frankly to exemplify a lot of the qualities and characteristics that we want to impart to our own students.”
She’s just spent a full day at the Museum of Tolerance at a workshop titled Race in the Classroom: America To Me. Ever thirsting to expand her knowledge of culturally responsive and anti-bias pedagogy, Kleinrock says…
