Jay Gillen

Jay Gillen has taught and organized in an around Baltimore City Public Schools since 1987. In 1994, after a two-year organizing campaign, he became teacher-director of the new Stadium Middle School, the first community-controlled public school in Baltimore in many years. Working with graduates of the Stadium School, Gillen developed the peer-tutoring Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP). Today, he teaches at the Waxter Juvenile Detention Center for Young Women, and is helping to develop a Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprise Incubator. Gillen is the author of numerous articles, and of the book, Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty.