A critical part of education includes responding to the problems around us. We can do that in many ways in our schools and our classrooms. One way is by helping students create highly effective...
Lindsay Singer and Ashley McCall are both third grade teachers at Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center in Chicago. Lindsay teaches mathematics and inquiry. And Ashley is an English language...
The only way to implement something well is through trial and error. In 2017, I proposed to my principal that teachers should adapt to trauma-informed education. Trauma-informed education includes...
I get it: “learning loss” is scary. Considering the unprecedented overuse of the word “unprecedented” to describe what our nation’s K-12 education system has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, we...
Exactly 60 years ago, James Baldwin wrote in Esquire magazine that "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." Recent statements from some major...