Teachers Can and Should Lead
It’s a scene that is played out time and again across the country— teachers are asked to fall in line with the shortsighted policies of administration without ever having been… Read more »
Category Archives: diversity
Teaching in a World with Immoral Politicians
This past week, I went through the week with a feeling of disgust and an unsettled feeling that I just could not shake. After leaving work on Friday, I first… Read more »
The Path of Resistance
This school year has been a challenge—a challenge for many reasons that I was not expecting. I have been working tirelessly throughout the past 2 years to create an educational… Read more »
Parents: Aren’t You Tired of Not Knowing What the State Assessment Scores Mean?
If you are reading this because you think that this will be a tutorial on how to read your child’s state test scores, you have come to wrong place…. Read more »
A Quality Education is Not Guaranteed
Teaching in a charter that ends at 8th grade means that that my students are left making a life-altering decision at the age of 13 or 14. Many might ask:… Read more »
Building Positive Culture: More Than Just Compliance
If you are a teacher, then you are either back to work or you can feel the last days of your summer vacation beginning to slip away. For the majority… Read more »
Reversing Tracking for Social Justice
Because tracking has been baked into the system of schooling, it is not something that is easily reversed. At my current school, we were able to do away with the… Read more »
Tracking: A Continuation of School Segregation
Almost 4 years ago, I started at a new school as a 7th grade math teacher. On the first day of school, I taught two separate sections of math class—… Read more »
Empathy: The Only Way We Can Come Together is to Listen
Listening to understand far outweighs listening to respond. In this increasingly chaotic atmosphere of divisive rhetoric, we must admit that we do not have all the answers. Rather than respond… Read more »
To Other White Folks: Why the #blacklivesmatter Movement Matters
It’s been two years since the #blacklivesmatter movement appeared after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the unjust murder of Trayvon Martin. In that same time, the media began to… Read more »