Teaching
Here's Why It's More Important Than Ever to Support Black Teachers
“I Fear I May Have Integrated My People Into a Burning House.” — Martin Luther King Jr. It is no secret that there is a widening diversity gap between our public school students and our public school...
Teaching
Minneapolis NAACP, Black Teachers Call Out Racism Behind Recent Teacher Strike
The Minneapolis NAACP held a press conference at the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers offices Thursday afternoon to unveil "the truth behind the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) deception"...
Q&A With Penny Schwinn: We Need Career Preparation, But We Also Need Academic Success
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee appointed Penny Schwinn the state’s education commissioner in January 2019, one year before COVID-19 threw schools into disarray. But the pandemic isn’t slowing her down. She...
Teaching
It’s Time to Rethink the Way We Evaluate Our Teachers
“Ms. Avalos, tell me I’m right!” Darrien and his lab group crowd my desk. “But it doesn’t make any sense,” argues Jocelyn, “Why would it go up?” My students are in the middle of a physics lesson on...
It's More Than This War. Ukrainian Education Is in Crisis.
Normalcy is a term unfamiliar to children in Ukraine. After years of conflict and pandemic disruptions, the children of Ukraine yet again find themselves forced back into chaos, not from the...
Math
I Tell Every One of My Students They're a 'Math Person'
Math was always my favorite subject throughout my K-12 schooling. It has always been the one subject that has come naturally to me. All throughout grade school, I was always among the top achievers...
