Charter Schools
If You’re Not Talking About Actively Disrupting Racism and Inequity in Education, You Can Kick Rocks
I watched the second round of the 2020 democratic presidential debates and I wasn’t as disappointed in the talking points as I was during the first debates....
Charter Schools
What If Black People Had a 'Green Book' for Finding the Schools Our Kids Deserve?
Black families should not be forced to choose between schools that challenge them academically and schools that nurture and love them for who they are. Yet, this is the choice so many Black families...
Charter Schools
White People Need to Understand That Helping Is Not the Same as Controlling
A few weeks ago, I attended a conference called Educator Summit in Philadelphia. I’m not much of a conference attendee and didn’t know exactly what to expect. I stood in the back of a dimly lit...
equity
How Do We Bring Magic Into the Classroom? Georgia's New Teacher of the Year Shows the Way.
For 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year Tracey Nance Pendley, the road to teaching was not easy. Pendley’s mother was a drug addict who was in and out of prison; when Pendley was 13, her mother died....
Teaching
Cardi B Is Teaching Us the Black History We Didn't Get in Schools
The media is all over Cardi B for making a video with democratic socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. People who don’t know her are quick to dismiss her as an “uninformed, uneducated Black woman...
equity
If We Want More Black Educators, We Need More Black Graduates
I don’t know if y’all have noticed, but there’s a growing movement of power and support for the Black educator network around the country. https://twitter.com/teachLTL/status/1152635298561458176?s=20...