CRT
Like James Baldwin Said, 'A Teacher Who Is Not Free to Teach Is Not a Teacher'
The great James Baldwin once stated, “A teacher who is not free to teach, is not a teacher.” As many of you already know, there is some real shit going on in our education system that requires our...
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...
COVID-19
Can We All Agree That Our Kids’ Health Must Come First?
Teachers across the country are anxiously awaiting the start of the school year and, although they are not technically “back on contract,” many have been spending days in their classrooms — cleaning,...
student achievement
3 Strategies To Make Your Classroom a Community
We are halfway through summer and the 2021-22 school year is only a few weeks away in some communities. After countless disruptions caused by the pandemic, the vast majority of schools are expected...
Teaching
Here's How Houston Is Bringing More Men of Color Into Teaching
How many teachers in your K-12 experience do you feel truly impacted you? It’s a Saturday afternoon in early June, and urban education expert Kwame Simmons sits in a classroom at Westbury High School...
COVID-19
I Almost Left Teaching But Then I Remembered Why I Started
This past year, I came the closest I ever have to ending my teaching career — midyear. Between August and December, my second graders and I had four different classroom models. The models were...
