The second time around in 9th grade I had a great coach. I had great English teachers. But what helped me into education wasn’t only Mr. Smith, who was a dynamic English teacher, who actually inspired me to become an English teacher – but it was one of the really horrible teachers that I had – that would challenge me, knowing my history as a student “Oh, so you want to sit up front this year because you failed ninth-grade last year. You should sit in the back with the jailbirds.” And I’m like, I want to become a teacher, because I know I can do it much better than this teacher.
Dr. Khalid Mumin, Superintendent of Lower Merion School District participated in a January 20 Webinar sponsored by PDK (Phi Delta Kappa). According to its website, PDK is a professional nonprofit organization for educators. The Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators named Mumin 2021 Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year.