Teaching
We All Hate Professional Development, But Some of Y’all Need It
Teachers enjoy the summer break, too. However, depending on when school gets out, summer vacation may be winding down already. If that is the case in your area, that means people are in for the start...
Charter Schools
At Freedom School Literacy Academy, Black Pride and Academic Achievement Go Hand-in-Hand
Erika Asikoye is the Director of the Freedom School Literacy Academy (FSLA) at The Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The FSLA, for the third consecutive summer, is...
Charter Schools
A ‘Whole Child’ Approach Will Be More Important Than Ever This Fall
With summer here and life as we remember emerges, the open doors and public gatherings herald a return to normal. When it comes to schools reopening in the fall, however, normal should not be the...
CRT
You Don't Have to Be a Critical Race Scholar to Apply a Critical Race Lens to Your Practice
In education, we have a tendency to overcomplicate things by getting caught up with sophisticated academic jargon for things that, I believe, are common sense. Differentiation, culturally relevant...
COVID-19
We Owe It to Our Students to Do Some Racial Justice Homework This Summer
This has been the longest year of my teaching career. Not literally, of course. Like many of you, I’ve worked about 200 days since last August, just as I do every year. Every educator, however, knows...
Literacy
4 Ways Parents Can Combat Learning Loss and the Summer Slide
It is summertime! While typically summer vacation serves as the signal for a prolonged break from academic work, parents should consider doing things a little bit differently this year. It is...
