Stories

My Toxic but Open Relationship With Education Activism

Transparent moment. There have been at least 50 separate occasions throughout my adult life where I’ve contemplated leaving this rollercoaster of a relationship I have with activism. As a matter of...

whole child

It's Time to Dump Deficit-Based Data

As the school year begins, we hear lots of deficit-laden words like “Title I,” “tough,” “low-income,” and “low-achieving” to describe primarily Black and brown students in schools. Where does this...

Teaching

I Hope My Black Students Will Become Educators Too

This is the note. This is the note. Mr. Walters, my middle school choir teacher, took his love of music and teaching music seriously. He would say those words as he hit the piano key hard in hopes...

anti-racism

Will All the Black Teachers Please Stand Up?

Education remains one of the Black community’s most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning, and training are essential to economic...

equity

White Women Like Me Dominate the Teaching Profession. Here's Why That's a Problem

I can name the Black educators I had growing up on one hand. One. Hand. And if I add the ones I had in college and graduate school, I’m still on that same one hand (gulp). Let’s look at some data for...

CRT

Like James Baldwin Said, 'A Teacher Who Is Not Free to Teach Is Not a Teacher'

The great James Baldwin once stated, “A teacher who is not free to teach, is not a teacher.” As many of you already know, there is some real shit going on in our education system that requires our...

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