equity
Rocketship Grows Educators Who Love Their Students Like My Granny Loved Me
I firmly believe that my granny saved my life. After being homeless and jumping from shelter to shelter for a period of time in my preteen years, my granny took in my siblings and me while my mother...
Charter Schools
Can a Community Charter Go National? Arizona Autism Charter School Says Yes
“It’s very easy for a child on the spectrum, even one with the mildest case of autism, to get lost and overwhelmed in the mainstream public school system,” says Kerrie Mallory-Thompson. That’s why,...
Literacy
Ohio Gov Pushes for Science of Reading as Only Approach
Ohio could soon join the rush of states requiring schools to use the “science of reading” in all its classrooms by fall 2024 — going even further than many states by banning other literacy approaches...
anti-racism
Black Students, Expelled Tennessee Justins face Same Struggle
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...
Inclusion
Current Events Belong in Teaching, But Social Justice Rooting is Needed
A decade ago, when new to the teaching profession, the real world interrupted the classroom with the murder of Trayvon Martin. The very next time we had class after his murder, I spent the entire day...
equity
A New Strategy for Driving Educational Equity
When Tulsa Public Schools leaders sought to improve student outcomes before the pandemic, they turned to an innovative local portrait of student life in school and beyond to help them identify...