Math
Math Pacing Guides: Do They Keep Pace or Leave Students Behind?
Recently, I was invited as a guest on the DebateMath podcast to participate in a nuanced discussion about the use of math pacing guides in our schools. To be clear, a pacing guide is a document that...
Ya Don’t Stop: A Review of the 2023 HipHopEd Conference
In honor of Black Music Month, I’d be remiss if I didn’t take time to recognize the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and the significant impact that the culture has had on my life as a student and an...
anti-racism
Anti-Racist Education: The N-Word is Not a Word for School
Editor’s Note: This article contains a racist term quoted in a poem. As a Black educator, every year, and I mean every single year, I am asked by a teacher, usually racially white, what they should...
Student Voice
Why The Student Voice In The Classroom Immediately Improves Education
Mya Gooden, a sixth grader at Salk Elementary School in Clinton Township, wrote me a letter several years ago as part of a class assignment. As the founder of a curriculum company, I talk with many...
Charter Schools
What if Two Types of Education Reform-Charter Schools and Education Savings Accounts-Merged?
The two dominant forms of school choice, charter schools and private school vouchers, have moved on parallel tracks since the 1990s. Now, the emergence of education savings accounts could bring these...
Literacy
Science of Reading vs. Whole Language War Rages On; Students Lose
Johnathon stared at me. I stared back at him. With no words spoken between us, we communicated with only our eyes; my tutoring student and I locked in a battle of wills that we were both determined...
