student achievement
6 Steps Towards Restorative Justice in Your School
In all the talk about the importance of reducing suspensions and other exclusionary discipline practices in schools, one question looms large for most educators and administrators: What do we do...
Mental Health
Excellence Is Not a 'White Thing'
“Mom, the kids at school said I act White,” my daughter told me one afternoon a few weeks ago. I asked her why. “Because I do my work, the way I talk and because of how I dress.” It saddened me as I...
School Discipline
DeVos Will Recommend the Removal of Civil Rights Protections for Students of Color
Any day now we’re going to hear the news that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration are removing guidance meant to reduce racist discipline practices that run rampant in...
opportunity gap
Stop Trying to 'All Lives Matter' the Black Struggle for Educational Justice
Outrage: White People Won't Be Satisfied Until We Make Our Struggle About Them I get tired of people trying to “All Lives Matter” my advocacy—especially White people. When I write these pieces...
School Funding
America Has Always Used Schools as a Weapon Against Native Americans
When Michelle Obama and her husband visited students of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North Dakota in the summer of 2014, she met students whose lives had been ravaged by substance abuse and...
Teaching
I'm a Teacher Not a Boxer, and I'm Tired of Being Beat Up by My Students
I had a job interview recently. Even though I am pretty well known for my work with older students I was interviewing for a K-2 special education classroom. There are lots of reasons for the change...