Teaching

A mother, teacher, and librarian reflects on “Frozen II,” Indigenous representation, and why children deserve the truth about Native history—no matter their age.

Preschool educator Makai Kellogg shares how to teach truthful, anti-bias Thanksgiving lessons to young children—without myths, distortions, or centering the colonial narrative. Learn how puppets, perspective-taking, and anti-bias practices help three-year-olds understand fairness, empathy, and Indigenous perspectives.

Learn how teachers can incorporate accurate Native American perspectives into Thanksgiving lessons, avoid harmful myths, and choose culturally responsible texts.

Thanksgiving has been distilled into a hardly visible holiday in schools, one that rarely drives curricular instruction. And yet, when we do mention it, it is almost entirely the mythology that we teach. 

A new federal definition of “professional degrees” excludes all education fields, slashing loan access and threatening the teacher, librarian, counselor, and leader pipeline.

A decade of BMEC: how 100 Black male educators grew into 2,000, building community, public voice, and resistance amid attacks on Black students and teachers.

Randi Weingarten’s “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” is a blistering defense of public education—and a battle cry for democracy itself.

We live in an age when truth has been replaced by performance. Modern schooling trains students to perform comprehension rather than seek understanding. Reclaiming clarity may be our last act of intellectual freedom.

As book bans and censorship spread, leaders must decide: protect comfort or defend truth? History shows progress comes from courage in education.