Achievement Gap
When We Talk to Our Students, Let's Focus Less on 'Learning Loss' and More on Their Learning Leaps
In the winter and spring of 2021, as the year of remote and hybrid learning continued, I started to notice a drop in attendance, particularly amongst my top-achieving students. Students have told me...
student support
Teachers Are the Best Experts on How to Spend the American Rescue Plan Money
The American Rescue Plan is sending an additional $128 billion in federal dollars to elementary and secondary schools to help students recover from the difficult year of learning caused by the...
Charter Schools
Our Co-Teaching Relationship Helped Ease the Daily Pressures of Teaching, Even During a Pandemic
It was early March 2020 at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Boston, Massachusetts. We—two seasoned public school educators—were getting ready to wrap up our second year of co-teaching. Despite...
Charter Schools
As Cities Drop Remote Learning, Some Families Want It Back
It’s no secret that the phrase “remote learning” is synonymous with frustration for many families who have been dealing with Zoom class horror stories and Google project pandemonium for over a year....
COVID-19
When It Comes to EdTech, We Can't Ever Be Caught Off-Guard Again
Over the last 15 months or so, while students in many communities have attended school virtually or in hybrid settings, technology has been a tremendous support. Now, as we look ahead to a somewhat...
CRT
All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power
*In my Principal Joe Clark voice* I need all of the Black education activists to join me in a church basement conversation, expeditiously! I’m not liking what I’m seeing on social media, y’all. To be...