Stand and Deliver

- Many students forget that teachers deal with stuff outside of school

- Latino teacher teaching in a primarily, but not entirely Latino school

- Teaches math to very unruly students. Some do not speak English

- Gets his car radio stolen on his first day at work

- Has a wife and kid

- Uses apples to teach percent

- Bullied by teenage Cholos

- Gang fight outside the school, stops one student from joining

- Uses alternative methods like every day activity references

- Wants to include all students, and maybe help the troubled ones

- REALLY wants his students to learn

- Some students aren’t even literate

- One Cholo (close friend of “lead” Cholo) student wants to learn, but doesn’t want people to know

- Wants to teach AP Calc to kids who have little math knowledge. His idea is to rebuild the school, starting at the top.

- Teaches trig and math analysis over the summer so they can take AP Calc

- “All you see is the turn. You don’t see the road ahead.”

- Gets his students to sign a contract to prepare for and take the AP Calculus Exam