4 Tips to Prioritize Students' Dignity During Remote Learning

4 Tips to Prioritize Students’ Dignity During Remote Learning

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

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 Online But It's Still School. Here Are 4 Tips for Your Child's Success.

It’s Online But It’s Still School. Here Are 4 Tips for Your Child’s Success.

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

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Black People, We're Tired. But Letting Up on Education Is Letting Up on Our Kids.

Black 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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Our Story Didn't Start in 1619': Dr. Chike Akua on How Our Education System Is Failing Black Students

Our Story Didn’t Start in 1619′: Dr. Chike Akua on How Our Education System Is Failing Black Students

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

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3 Questions Every Educator Should Ask to Prepare for School This Year

3 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

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Our School Already Started and It’s Not Like Anything I've Ever Seen

Our 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

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Statues Are Only One Kind of Monument to White Supremacy

Statues 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

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Will We Still Fight for Racial Justice in Schools This Fall?

Will 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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