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COVID-19

Black People, We're Tired. But Letting Up on Education Is Letting Up on Our Kids.

For the past few weeks I’ve been going in on everything and everybody I feel has a hand in blocking the progression of and crusade for educational liberation for Black kids, especially during...

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COVID-19

It's Online But It's Still School. Here Are 4 Tips for Your Child's Success.

It’s late August and school is happening from home. The pandemic has forced us to reimagine school whether we like it or not. Remote learning means that my 8-year-old will be next to me while I work....

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COVID-19

Our School Already Started and It’s Not Like Anything I've Ever Seen

School buildings closed across the country last spring, and now, they are reopening. The reopening plans vary state to state, city to city, and from district to district. The options have been...

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equity

3 Questions Every Educator Should Ask to Prepare for School This Year

There are some things we understand much better today than we did four months ago. Leading school districts and schools of all grade levels during the COVID-19 pandemic has become the greatest...

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COVID-19

Will We Still Fight for Racial Justice in Schools This Fall?

Parents, I can say with confidence the classrooms your children left in the spring will not be the same one they will return to this fall—and not only because of COVID-19 social distancing...

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School Discipline

Statues Are Only One Kind of Monument to White Supremacy

Every year, I ask my students to identify phenomena in our world that are both imagined and real. In other words, what are some things that: Have not always existed? Have or can change? Society could...

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