Teaching
Q&A With Paige Kowalski: Getting Transparent About Student Data
Student data. Standardized testing. Accountability. These words set off a lot of big feelings among parents, educators and policymakers — especially fear and anger. Controversies over testing,...
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...
Teaching
Your Thanksgiving Clip Art and Crafts Might Be Microaggressions. Here's How to Do Better.
In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to cease publication of six of the prolific writer's works due to his demeaning caricatures of non-white ethnicities. This ongoing discussion of racist...
CRT
We'll Never Agree on CRT, but We Can All Agree We Want to Produce Students Who Do Good
Our world has been forever changed as a result of the pandemic as well as the racial unrest of 2020. We learned new ways of being — how to be alone, how to distance, how to properly wash our hands,...
CRT
Here's Why Black People Being Whipped at the Border Is Like the Public Education System
Look at this picture of a white man on a horse appearing to whip a Black man. And no, this isn’t from the year 1712. It’s from earlier this week — the United States of America, circa 2021....
COVID-19
4 Ways Administrators Can Better Support Teachers This Year
Teachers are walking away from education, but the pandemic has accelerated the exit of some educators. I have spoken to several principals who have not filled all vacancies for the 2021-2022 school...