RaShawna Sydnor

Education Committee and Education Content Creator

RaShawna Sydnor is an educator who is passionate about, and deeply committed to, ensuring that the children she serves receive an education that is rich with history and positive representation. 

She is currently a high school Humanities/ELA instructor at Green Street Academy.  During her six-year tenure with Baltimore City Schools, she taught 6-8th grade ELA and Social Studies, 9th grade Computer Science and Leadership for Social Justice. She also served as a Culture and Climate Specialist and Restorative Practices Coordinator.  Additionally, she has served as a BMore ME Curriculum Writing Fellow; a curriculum development program unique to Baltimore City Schools that replaces or supplements the current prescribed curriculum with lessons, content and resources that allow city school scholars to see positive representations of themselves and their hometown.  

She is also an affiliate instructor at Loyola University Maryland in the Curriculum and Instruction for Social Justice - where she also serves as a board member - and the Master of Arts in Teaching programs, focusing on courses that analyze the foundations, power, identity and intersectionalities in education with heavy emphasis on matters of race and equity.  She has also given several presentations/served as panelist for conferences on the same subject.

RaShawna received her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.  She has also earned several degrees from Loyola University Maryland including a Master’s in Curriculum & Instruction, a Master of Arts in Teaching, an advanced dual certification in Educational Leadership & Administration and Supervision and certification in Teaching English Language Learners. 

A 2021 recipient of a McCarthy Dressman grant, over the next 3 years, she will be collaborating with teachers to develop culturally relevant teaching resources across content areas.  The resources will be made available to teachers interested in history and historical connections to present societal issues.  The content will be made available via the Baltimore Story website, in partnership with the Loyola University Maryland Center for Equity, Leadership & Social Justice in Education.

When she is not educating herself or others, she is reading, tweeting or obsessing about the Marvel film Black Panther.