Teacher Madison Payton '11 Among International Literacy Association's '30 Under 30'

September 5, 2015

Madison Payton, an English teacher at New York's English Academy for Young Men II and a 2011 graduate of DePauw University, is among the International Literacy Association's first-ever "30 Under 30" list.  Those recognized are "up-and-coming trailblazers who are changing the world of literacy and education," notes a feature in Literacy Today magazine.  The honorees are "rising leaders ...who already have accomplished so much to transform their classrooms, their communities, and the world."

"Madison Payton uses high-level texts to teach young men of color about racial identity at his school in Brooklyn, N.Y.," notes the publication.  "Payton is developing his school's first writing center, which will use peer tutors and a writing specialist to aid students with reading and writing.  He also established his school's first AP English language and literature courses ... Payton was recently accepted into the Stanford Hollyhock Fellowship Program, which supports highly motivated early-career teachers."

Payton -- who majored in English (literature) and minored in education studies at DePauw and went on earn a master's degree in education from Fordham University -- says, "My scholars motivate me every day, because they challenge me to not only be a better instructor, but to be a better person as well."

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