Mrs. Ramos
Educating The Future
by Jenny Hor
Navigating a diversifying landscape presents educators with an opportunity to start
conversations on how culture impacts a student’s educational journey. But those conversations aren’t always easy.
“It is quite a challenge to include more diversity education into our curriculum, especially
when our numbers are still pretty small like
in my school. I think that acknowledging and
celebrating our differences in backgrounds
and cultures is the best way to engage the
multicultural student,” says Irmarie Ramos,
a science teacher at Vista Heights Middle
School.
Known as “Mrs. Ramos” by her students, she is i