Have you ever revisited your philosophy of teaching? I don’t mean the progressive policies you ardently advocate for at faculty meetings or on Facebook; I
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How I’m Helping My Child With Special Needs Navigate Remote Learning
My children always start school two weeks before everyone else. So after two weeks of e-learning—or what I am calling two-weeks “in the trenches”—I feel li
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It’s late August and school is happening from home. The pandemic has forced us to reimagine school whether we like it or not. Remote learning means that my
Read MoreBlack People, We’re Tired. But Letting Up on Education Is Letting Up on Our Kids.
For the past few weeks I’ve been going in on everything and everybody I feel has a hand in blocking the progression of and crusade for educational liberati
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On Monday, August 31st at 5:30 ET on Facebook Live, Citizen Ed, a brightbeam platform, will host the next virtual Town Hall in our #SeekingChildJustice ser
Read More3 Questions Every Educator Should Ask to Prepare for School This Year
There are some things we understand much better today than we did four months ago. Leading school districts and schools of all grade levels during the COVI
Read MoreOur School Already Started and It’s Not Like Anything I’ve Ever Seen
School buildings closed across the country last spring, and now, they are reopening. The reopening plans vary state to state, city to city, and from distri
Read MoreStatues Are Only One Kind of Monument to White Supremacy
Every year, I ask my students to identify phenomena in our world that are both imagined and real. In other words, what are some things that: Have not alway
Read MoreWill We Still Fight for Racial Justice in Schools This Fall?
Parents, I can say with confidence the classrooms your children left in the spring will not be the same one they will return to this fall—and not only beca
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