Cherrel Miller Dyce, assistant professor of education and faculty fellow for the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education, delivered the keynote address at Winston-Salem State University, School of Education Teacher Induction Pinning Ceremony on April 22, 2015.
Cherrel Dyce’s address titled, “Fill My Backpack and Let it Overflow” implored aspiring teachers to consciously gather tools along the way, storing them in an invisible backpack in order to create an optimal learning environment for students and their families. Dyce concluded the address with the following tools for the students to add to their backpack:
- Teachers should be learners first
- The teaching race is not for the swift but for those who endure
- A teacher must remember to act in loco parentis
- Teach to the head, heart, and as bell hooks stated “soul of students.”