Matt Scialdone is an African American Literature Teacher at Middle Creek High School in Wake County. He's a teacher who takes a problem-posing approach to teaching and learning that looks for explicit ways to connect text-to-context. His teaching philosophy is one that honors the agency,  various cultural orientations, and ways of knowing that his students embody. For him, teaching is about "lighting the fuse" and getting out of the way. As a white male, he works constantly at modeling culturally responsive teaching in his classroom and being a continual work-in-progress.