Teaching
I Want So Badly to Be an Anti-Racist Ally and Yet I Still Mess Up Sometimes
“Dear @MrTomRad, we have a lot of common peeps and I respect your work. While I can appreciate what you're trying to do with this piece, a surge in racism is not a gift to my children. We have ruined...
California
If You're Not Going to Teach Our Kids to Read, Then We're Taking Your Ass to Court
Outrage: Kids Can’t Read, America It took the kid about 5 minutes to read one sentence. He struggled to pronounce the easiest words. I was annoyed. I said to myself, “He must be a little slow…” And...
Mental Health
Great Teachers Turn Life’s Challenges Into Lessons and Inspiration for Others
As teacher leaders, we go out and we inspire; we fight; we motivate, and we do it because we love students and believe in educators. We view our teacher role models as superhuman and often wonder how...
Teaching
Here Are Three Reasons for Chicago Public Schools' Success
With Chicago’s school closings, enrollment declines, funding issues and problematic special education reforms dominating the headlines for the past five years, it’s difficult to trust the research...
Poverty
That's Right, Kids, We've Totally Ruined the Country. Consider It a Gift.
This post generated a lot of thoughtful responses to which the author has written a reflection reconsidering his approach to race in this particular piece. We highly recommend reading the companion...
Diversity
I Thought I Knew How to Support Students of Color Until I Learned This
A few months into my time as Oregon’s Teacher of the Year I was asked to speak to the largest gathering of teachers in my state. As I stood at the podium, addressing an auditorium full of teachers, I...
