David Stovall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL US
"Think and create, and find a community of folks that you can think and create with."
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David's work combines: Education, Politics, and Teaching / Mentoring
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Advice for getting started
Appreciate the small things and always ask questions. Build community with the people who can answer those questions. Find a community of individuals that you can think and create with.
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
History, General
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Degree
Education Policy Analysis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctorate
Education Policy Analysis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Life & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
1.
Says his driving force is, "What is that story that we don't talk about? What are the things that have gone missing?"
2.
In kindergarten, he got the "bogus" Columbus story, couldn't understand how he "discovered" a place where people already lived.
3.
Disinvested from school, thought it was feeding him lies; years later, a teacher told him he should work to prove the world's negative expectations of him wrong.
4.
Says all forthright change comes from people who have "found their conditions intolerable and are working to change those conditions."
5.
He knew he had to change the educational system's flaws from the inside.
6.
Uses his free time off from teaching to work in classrooms in Chicago; takes those experiences back to his college students.
7.
This allows him to speak confidently about what is going on in the communities he lectures about, rather than just "pontificating."
8.
Says working in spaces of poverty, hypersegregation can be frustrating and toxic for some, but he's learned to find happiness in the little things.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Myself:
All school is teaching me are lies.
How I responded:
I disinvested from school because of this, I just felt like I couldn't trust the institution; years later, a teacher told me that I should work to change the educational system's flaws from the inside.