Samuel Gonzalez is a second-grade teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School in Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. He now attends Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, working towards his doctorate in educational leadership. His areas of research and interest include culturally responsive pedagogies, digital literacies, and multicultural reading choices for students in literacy instruction. In addition to teaching his second graders and earning a doctorate, Sammy is also in the Pennsylvania National Guard.