School Funding
Here’s What I Will Fight for in 2021
2020 was the pits. More than 300,000 Americans died from COVID. A dearth of presidential leadership that led to the politicization of wearing masks—the single most effective tool in the fight to...
Charter Schools
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 teacher. As an educator supporting public...
anti-racism
I 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 from the South. So, this first bite of pie is...
opportunity gap
For 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 there. I know that many educators looked...
COVID-19
The 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, then, to learn the traditional greeting...
activism
Want 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 stay safe during a pandemic. In education,...
