Teaching
Congratulations, You Will Never Have to Do Your First Year of Teaching Again
I want to take a moment to shout out all the first-year teachers out there who made it through what was, in all likelihood, one of the most difficult years of your life. I will never forget my first...
Achievement Gap
The Discomfort of White Adults Should Never Take Priority Over the Success of Our Black and Brown Students
“I didn’t come here to teach those kinds of kids.” It’s alarming to think that adults charged with helping students of color succeed in school would hold such thoughts, much less say it aloud. But...
Charter Schools
We Are D.C. Education Leaders of Color and Advocates for a High-Quality Public Education for Every Student in Every Neighborhood
As noted in a May 26 Washington Post article, Paul Kihn, Washington, D.C.’s deputy mayor for education (DME), wrote a memo to the D.C. Public Charter School Board (DC PCSB) ahead of its May 20th vote...
IEP
Do We Have to Call in the National Guard to Protect the Civil Rights of Students With Disabilities?
The question must be asked: What do we have to do to get school districts to follow the law and give students who are disabled the services they are legally entitled to receive? I’ll give you an...
California
Public Education in This Country Is Literally a Matter of Life and Death. Here's How It's Playing Out.
Last week, a group of Californians got what Dolly Hunt called their “Martin Luther King moment.” https://twitter.com/PeeplesChoice85/status/1131237556366979072?s=20 Here’s what happened. The...
STEM
I Want to #RemakeLearning to Ensure My Sons Can Thrive in an Ever-Changing World
The children of 1960s-era civil rights-leading parents, my siblings and I were always told that the key to success in life is education. Amid marching with Dr. King in Montgomery and meeting Malcolm...