Bargains! PROMOTIONS
Dr. Terence Ngwa is a veteran educator and organizational leader with over 20 years of national and international professional service and expertise. He has worked for many years to ensure an effective voice for educators, parents, and students in the K-12 setting. His work has successfully and repeatedly brought together education stakeholders to collaborate on improving outcomes for students, especially group from historically marginalized backgrounds. Dr. Ngwa earned a bachelor's degree in French and English from the University of Yaoundé in his native Cameroon before emigrating to the United States. He has since served in various education roles: in Washington DC as a middle school teacher, exchange student program coordinator, union representative and ultimately Washington Teachers Union Executive Director. While serving in these roles, Dr. Ngwa earned a master's degree in educational leadership from Trinity Washington University, a Doctoral Degree in organizational leadership from Southeastern University, and certificates in Diversity and Inclusion and Collective Bargaining from Cornell University. In 2021, Dr. Ngwa was selected to lead a new graduate-level certificate program in school leadership in the School of Education at American University in Washington DC. He currently serves as a senior professorial lecturer and teaches various courses in curriculum design for the classroom, school improvement, organization, and administration at the graduate level. He also teaches social justice in urban education at the undergraduate level. Dr. Ngwa has designed and developed culturally responsive and inclusive content for school leadership preparation, supervised aspiring principals' internship experiences, designed and led experiential learning exchanges to Europe and West Africa. He currently directs the Antiracist Administration, Supervision, and Leadership Certificate Program and the International Training and Education Program within the School of Education. Dr. Ngwa is passionate about social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion and antiracist initiatives in education, and these are at the core of his commitment to education.
""Beyond Compensation: Empowering Teachers' Unions to Think Beyond Bread-and-Butter Issues, chronicles two decades of work by Terence Ngwa and the Washington Teachers Union to improve education for DC's children while also advocating for the teachers who are his union's members. Grounded in such union initiatives as community schools, annual ""Shared Vision Conferences,"" and DC Council hearings, such a chronicle means running into the ever-complicated world of Washington, DC education: mayoral control; ever-changing mayoral-appointed Chancellors, starting with Michelle Rhee; and the huge charter school sector, imposed on DC by Newt Gingrich's Congress. The book's story belies the stereotype of teacher unions as just self-interested.""--Ruth Wattenberg, Former President, DC State Board of Education ""Dr. Ngwa's Beyond Compensation: Empowering Teachers' Unions to Think Beyond Bread-and-Butter Issues is a powerful and timely examination of teachers' unions as champions of social justice, educational equity, and democratic values. Ngwa dismantles the narrative that unions merely protect self-interest and offers a well-researched perspective that positions them as vital advocates for students, families, and communities--particularly those historically marginalized by our education system. At a moment when public education faces unprecedented threats, Dr. Ngwa reminds us of the importance of educators' unions in the coalition fighting for equity and justice in our schools.""--kecia hayes, PhD - American University ""Dr. Ngwa's latest book, Beyond Compensation: Empowering Teachers' Unions to Think Beyond Bread-and-Butter Issues, is essential reading for anyone interested in making sure that American schools provide excellent educational opportunities to all students.""--Larry Rubin, former speechwriter, US Department of Education ""In clearly delineated chapters, Terence Ngwa, in Beyond Compensation: Empowering Teachers' Unions to Think Beyond Bread-and-Butter Issues, offers clear thinking on how we can improve our school system. His research is experience-based and pragmatic, based on both his classroom and union experience. He offers the steps unions should take to enhance the education of all our students.""--Alice Heiserman, former teacher, President, WriteBooksRight
