Stories

Math is/was/always will be my worst subject. It doesn’t matter if it’s factorials (good God, what?), statistics (it looks easy but it’s not), or even somet

Whenever I have the opportunity to share about myself, I always scan the room before sharing that “I am a TFA alumna.” I like to prepare myself for the nay

7:00 a.m. Waking up as an 8-year-old, I got out of bed and proceeded to the bathroom to brush my teeth. The entire morning I had chills throughout my spine

What is implicit racial bias? Implicit bias is the unconscious associations and assumptions made between groups of people which affect the routine classroo

This is the fourth part of a four-part series on the writer’s experience and research on the achievement gap in her hometown of Evanston, Illinois, a diver

In 2006, I graduated from Hazelwood Central High School in St. Louis County. Up until I turned 16, and later sometimes to save on gas money, I remember tak

Okay, so I’m not a parent—yet. But every day I read so many inspiring stories of parents from around the country demanding better schools for their childre

I was rushing to second period when my counselor asked, “Did you send your application to Dartmouth yet?” stopping to interrogate me in the hall. In my min

As a third-year teacher in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I’ve already thought about leaving the profession. Since middle school, I always wanted to be a te