Stories

Dear Freedom School Literacy Team 2020, Across the nation, we started the summer of 2020, lighting up the streets with rage. We rage for George Floyd’s sen

The latest episodes of police murdering Black people have my chest burning like a building set ablaze. My heart is hot, my stomach churns. My head filled w

All across the country confederate statues are coming down, schools and road names are changing too. In my home state, New Mexico, we’re beginning to addre

High school students are graduating into an uncertain world. As a high school physics teacher in Boston Public Schools (BPS), I have seen the many ways tha

The challenge of safely educating children in high poverty school districts during the pandemic is glaring. A recent analysis of Philadelphia showed many s

Rapid paradigm shifts can introduce issues for any sector, but they’re particularly challenging in the field of education. School districts across the coun

Last week, something in my spirit told me to create an Instagram post on Canva that stated the following:  Okay people, the jury is out!  What’s the verdic

Four weeks ago, a Black man was lynched. In 2020. I remind myself of that fact each day so that I do not forget what we saw, what happened—that we witnesse

As we all anxiously await a return to normal, the worst thing that could happen for schools is just that—return to normal. If we do not emerge from the sit