Recently, I was invited as a guest on the DebateMath podcast to participate in a nuanced discussion about the use of math pacing guides in our schools. To be clear, a pacing guide is a document that...
In honor of Black Music Month, I’d be remiss if I didn’t take time to recognize the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and the significant impact that the culture has had on my life as a student and an...
Almost 30 years ago at the University of California, San Diego, the late Chicana feminist and activist Elizabeth Martinez coined the term Oppression Olympics during a discussion with Angela Davis...
In his classic book The Miseducation of the Negro, Dr. Carter G. Woodson stated: “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to...
When I arrived at Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia as a teaching fellow in 2008, Salome Thomas-EL, the principal at the time, assigned me to the classroom of one of his star teachers,...
