Thoughts Held Hostage: A Black Teacher's Journey of Unlocking Young Minds

by Debra Watkins

Follow the journey of an award-winning teacher and social activist of African ancestry who has positively affected the lives of thousands of multicultural students through programs and institutions that she has built. Prospective teachers as well as veterans and others who support students will learn much from this book. As the founder of an award-winning STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) program in the heart of Silicon Valley, the author shares just how she managed to send 100% of her Scholars of African ancestry to college where 90% graduate in four years with BA or BS degrees and 60% of those degrees are in STEM fields. That is about 8 times the national average for Black students. It can be done!

164 pages, Paperback

Published June 26, 2016

About the author

Debra is a British-born Australian Writer. She began writing in earnest after starting a Family History Blog in August 2011.

She loves Family History and has been researching her ancestry ever since her grandmother helped her with a school family tree project. She loves Memoirs and also reads historical fiction and gothic novels.

Her other loves are Japan, music, movies, cats, London history, historical crime (non-fiction), military/war history, house history, cooking, and collecting vintage postcards/photographs.