Teaching

On December 14, 2012, a shooter walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children and six adults. My firstborn son w

I’m starting a new thing here called “Hope and Outrage.” A lot of us wake up every morning with the goal of rallying people to fight for better educational

Take a moment and think back to when you were 12 years old. See life through the eyes of your 12-year-old self. What were you most excited about? What did

As a teenager on the streets of Chicago’s South Side, Darrell Cannon learned not to trust the police—a lesson that continues to resonate for young Black me

On March 14, students across the country will walk out of school to demand action on gun violence. They are telling elected officials, “Enough!” They are s

There is a growing body of evidence that Black students perform better when they have a Black teacher. It is a problem, then, that only 6 percent of teache

My study of school shootings began in 1998 when I evaluated a 14-year-old boy who carried out a shooting in Paducah, Kentucky. He had been bullied for year

Seventeen years ago, I was a first-year teacher working alone in my classroom when a police officer came to my door. He told me to “get low” and to come wi

As a teacher who wants to learn from and become involved in the larger national conversation on education, I tuned in and watched the ‘60 Minutes’ intervie