student support
3 Ways We Can Support the Unique Needs of English Language Learners After the Pandemic
Picture this: a Spanish-speaking student in the back of the classroom struggling to understand a lecture. Now picture this: a Spanish-speaking student in the back of the classroom struggling to...
Teaching
When My Struggling Readers Won't Read for School, but They Will for Squid Game
“Squid Game” is graphic and not meant for young audiences. This is not an endorsement of using the show as teaching material. As a teacher, I typically find out about new things from my students. By...
CRT
These 5 Anti-Racist Books Will Help Level Up Your School’s Professional Development
Over the past year, I have been able to read a ton of great books focused on social justice, culturally relevant pedagogy, and disrupting white supremacy culture in our schools. With a new school...
Special Education
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...
Teaching
Why We Can’t Just Shut Up and Teach
It is no easy thing to help high school students become better critical thinkers. Especially now. The very act of engaging students in the events of the world and helping them to understand and...
Teaching
I Teach Literacy as a Tool for Liberation
When I was a twenty-nine-and-a-half-year-old middle school English teacher, I bought my first house. I was also single. Normally my singledom isn’t important but then it signaled my financial...
