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In 2016, then-24-year-old Cipriano Vargas became the youngest person ever elected to the Vista Unified School Board in California. After graduating from Ca

In my second year of teaching, I had a notorious student we’ll call Israel. After the first day of class, we sat down and discussed appropriate expectation

There is no honor in the world like being a teacher. And in a school, every single person can play a teaching role. In fact, even our students can be their

Everyone is talking about how schools should care about equity for their students, but that can’t be the whole conversation. Equity has to mean more than j

I’m still less than a year into my new role as a teacher coach specializing in supporting first-year teachers, but here are four things that have stood out

Last week I got an email that one of my son’s two kindergarten teachers, Ms. Ashley, is starting her maternity leave and he’s getting a new co-teacher for

I’m on a mission to call everybody out who’s not working in the best interest of kids, all 2019. On this week’s list is Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” I have pondered over this Laurel Ulrich quote for several years after hearing it, and especially during Women’s H

In a recent statement to Congress, Betsy DeVos, the nation’s education chief, made the following statement: Students may be better served by being in large