anti-racism

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

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

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

After months of speculation in what I personally believe is the least covered presidential campaign in modern history, Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala H

I cried as I set up my classroom this year. This was no dainty, politely fighting-back-tears kind of cry. It was a violent, sobbing, heaving cry that start

Black people, it’s time to claim our bag and finally build an educational system that works for us! Back in March I wrote about how we need to end the pand

I desperately want to return to school in the fall and be with my kids. In the most non-melodramatic, non-trivial way possible—I am lost without them. I im

I have done a lot of self-reflection over the last few weeks. I am angry with myself. I, who pride myself on being culturally competent, feel like a fraud.

In 1990, I was a brand-new teacher in an unusual environment: a Chicago alternative high school where teens and young adults could earn their diplomas afte