“My form of teaching is grounded in social justice and critical thinking,” says Jessica Suarez Nieto, who teaches middle school math and social studies at a Southwest Side CPS school. “When the Laquan McDonald hearings were going on, we had conversations about the issues around that and how do we address them. Or talking about why unions matter — it doesn’t matter that they agree with the position teachers take with the strike, what matters is that we validate different viewpoints and try to think about why someone might have that point of view.”