From ELL Student to HS Math Teacher with Priyank Bhatt

Meet Priyank Bhatt, a lead math teacher at West Side High School, part of the Newark Public Schools in New Jersey. When he was a child, Priyank moved from India to the U.S., and learned English with the help of a dedicated ESL teacher and by watching cartoons with his friends. Even while he was struggling with the language barrier, Priyank discovered that math was universal, and began to tutor his friends when they struggled in class. By the time he was pursuing a master’s in education f...