I will never forget the moment last year when a seventh-grade African American student came to my door and said, “Mr. Taylor, I just wanted to stop by and
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We Have No Idea What This Year Has Been Like for Our Kids
One year ago, my now-kindergartener left his bustling and diverse transitional kindergarten classroom with sensory learning areas designed for academic and
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We value innovation here at Education Post, and New Jersey teacher Keith Andrew Massey is chock full of it. Massey teaches Latin. We’re still living throu
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When we bear witness, when we become the situation—homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death—the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worr
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I started my teaching career teaching music. I’d been a professional musician for a decade—performing, touring and recording jazz and Latin music. With som
Read MoreY’all Know These Schools Got Derek Chauvins and Bystander Cops Too Right?
Can we get into this conversation about how school districts, teachers unions and police unions are triplets? Because they all have the exact same DNA when
Read More7 Steps to Help You Implement Trauma-Informed Practices at Your School
The only way to implement something well is through trial and error. In 2017, I proposed to my principal that teachers should adapt to trauma-informed educ
Read MoreWe Learned a Lot About What Our Students Actually Need This Year. Now We Must Do Better.
We have all been steeped in the vivid, traumatic consequences of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, particularly with regard to a year of disrupted learning for
Read MoreSee Who Made Brightbeam’s 2021 List of Rising Women
For Women’s History Month, we asked readers on social media to nominate the women who are changing education for the better. It was hard to cut the nominee
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