Teaching

What is implicit racial bias? Implicit bias is the unconscious associations and assumptions made between groups of people which affect the routine classroo

As a third-year teacher in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I’ve already thought about leaving the profession. Since middle school, I always wanted to be a te

Teacher training in the U.S. has been a crapshoot. Because when you’re hiring first year teachers, sometimes you say “crap” and other times you say “shoot.

Since 2003, Kate Walsh has been working hard to improve the teaching force in our schools—an undisputed key to better academic performance. She’s served as

“After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching…is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nua

The gap between Thanksgiving and winter break can be one of the most challenging stretches in time any teacher experiences. It’s like trekking the Sahara D

I watched the now infamous video of a White teacher in Baltimore calling her students “idiots” and asking if they want to grow up to be “broke-a**  n***ers

“If we would start telling the truth in schools, we would not have racism. We could cure racism in this country” —Jane Elliott   These words by anti-racist

In many ways, the election seems like a lifetime ago. I recall that the weather on the weekend before election day was gorgeous. I was lucky enough to atte