Renata Robinson-Glenn

Renata Robinson-Glenn is a middle and high school social studies teacher in New York City. This is her nineteenth year of classroom teaching. Throughout her career, she has worked with a wide range of diverse learners in DOE schools. For the last 15 years she has worked at the Young Women’s Leadership School of Queens in Jamaica. She was awarded the Student Leadership Network Blue Ribbon Teacher Award in 2013 for being a committed teacher who has created “a project based learning environment for her students which enriches the quality of their education.” She has planned field trips around NYC, mentored new teachers, planned and taught middle and high school advisory lessons, led workshops on classroom routines and engaging students in discussion by incorporating Pop Culture into the curriculum. Mrs. Robinson-Glenn is highly engaged in her school community. She is the TYWLS Club coordinator, organizing and managing all middle and high school clubs. She is also the teacher advisor to the Anime Club, which plans karaoke nights, movie nights, and a student-run restaurant for three days. She hosts Tea Parties for the senior class, manages a student-led voting registration drive, and coordinates a Black History Month fair and showcase of student talent. For her new course Expressive Resistance: Art in Defiance she curates an Art Show and Film festival. She implements project based learning through her social studies curriculum for 8th grade. One of her signature projects, the 8th Grade Exit Project, has become a right of passage at TYWLS. Her students produce a year-long multifaceted Portfolio that ends in one on one presentations with professionals, where students present their ideas about the impact of the distribution of civil rights on American society. Her curriculum fosters student empowerment and allows them to have a voice by actively engaging in their own education. Mrs. Robinson-Glenn has a B.A. in Spanish with significant work in Latin American History and Fine Arts, from Amherst College. She received a MS in education at Bank Street College of Education, where she integrated imaginative, project-based, hands-on learning into her studies.