COVID-19
How to Help Kids Cope With COVID and Back to School Stress
In a year like none other, going back to school—usually a well-established, streamlined process marked by ordered checklists and cheerful first-day photos—has been a long and chaotic road. Some...
COVID-19
Books Are Essential Tools to Help Children Manage Grief
With more than 200,000 COVID-related deaths nationwide since March, and with the knowledge from a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study that the COVID infection rates are significantly higher in...
COVID-19
We Can and Must Repair the Damage This Pandemic Is Causing Our Students
Across America, teachers and administrators have managed to cobble together classes, whether through in-person attendance, virtually or a hybrid. Getting this strangest of school years up and running...
equity
Kids Need Remote Learning to Be Culturally Relevant, Too
Last spring, amidst the uprisings following the immediate failure to bring any sort of justice for George Floyd’s murder, I received a Google Hangout video call from a student I will call Sean....
Achievement Gap
Black Boys' Can Help You Reach African American Males in Your Classroom
The week that it was Black History Month, I grabbed two assignments. One from a district that was serving mostly white kids, and they were reading the Letter from Birmingham Jail and they were, as...
COVID-19
Mental Health Should Be a Top Priority at Schools This Fall
As COVID-19 disrupted school for children statewide, many educators were focused on maintaining academic progress. That’s certainly important. But in my experience, as a public charter school teacher...