Inclusion

It’s no surprise that I work in education. It’s in my blood. My grandmother Alberta, a proud Chicana, lived in the projects in downtown Denver and was in a

This summer, my students and I learned that blue crabs are really feisty, but mosquitos are even feistier.  For two weeks in June, I chaperoned a student f

Every student deserves the chance to tell their story. Three years ago, to me, the daily proceedings at the vast majority of schools across my home state o

America is more diverse than it’s ever been, as are the students attending public schools, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at individual schools. In fa

A few weeks ago, I attended a conference called Educator Summit in Philadelphia. I’m not much of a conference attendee and didn’t know exactly what to expe

For 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year Tracey Nance Pendley, the road to teaching was not easy. Pendley’s mother was a drug addict who was in and out of pris

A growing number of people are outraged by our current immigration debacle involving refugees on the southern border of the United States: children in conc

The other day I watched the documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.  https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1143251611801804800 Now if

Parents’ love for their children is the single greatest—and most underutilized—natural resource in education. I learned this firsthand as a son. My parents