This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, educators nationwide, and the world over, have had to adapt how they provide services to children and families.
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Three Lessons We Learned Through This Pandemic in 2020
It’s easy to view remote learning through the lens of its deficits. After all, there’s really no substitute for the face-to-face rapport with an excellent
Read MoreI Can’t Expect Some Magical Black Character to Declare Me ‘Good White People.’ I Have to Do the Work.
It was a year ago that I tried sweet potato pie for the first time. Now, I am white and, though I have lived in Atlanta for 20 years, I am not originally f
Read MoreFor 2021, We Need Real Strategies to Dismantle Racism in Schools
As educators, we’re taught to begin with the end in mind. To be successful, we need to know our intended outcome so we can backward plan how we will get th
Read MoreThe Most Important Question a Teacher Can Ask Is ‘How Are the Children?’
On the sun-glazed African continent, the most storied warrior people, incomparably formidable and sagacious in war, is the Maasai. It is perhaps unexpected
Read MoreDiscussing White Privilege in an All-White Class Is Uncomfortable. Do It Anyway.
With so many pressing education issues on our collective agenda, it is important that we don’t ignore the national conversation on race that erupted during
Read MoreWant Your Education Data to Have Impact? Cut the Jargon.
By now, “follow the science” is in contention for the most popular phrase of 2020. But research and data aren’t just relevant for communities trying to sta
Read MoreHere’s Why ‘No Politics in the Classroom’ Isn’t Working for Marginalized Students
Which of the following is too political to be displayed in a public school teacher’s classroom? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are c
Read MoreBetter Late Than Never, OUSD Commits to Housing on Unused Properties
In California, growing numbers of school districts are putting their vacant land and buildings to work to house vulnerable students and families. In Novemb
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