Last month, Eligio Calatayud walked out of the East Club at TIAA Bank Field into the warm night, encouraged.
The Mandarin High School Spanish teacher had just spent nearly two hours connecting with other Black and brown educators from across Northeast Florida at Lift & Lead, a conference put on by the Jacksonville Public Education Fund.
Calatayud is one of 85 Hispanic male teachers in Duval County Public Schools, a district that serves around 8,000 students who speak a first language other than English.
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