Achievement Gap
When We Talk to Our Students, Let's Focus Less on 'Learning Loss' and More on Their Learning Leaps
In the winter and spring of 2021, as the year of remote and hybrid learning continued, I started to notice a drop in attendance, particularly amongst my top-achieving students. Students have told me...
student support
Teachers Are the Best Experts on How to Spend the American Rescue Plan Money
The American Rescue Plan is sending an additional $128 billion in federal dollars to elementary and secondary schools to help students recover from the difficult year of learning caused by the...
Charter Schools
Our Co-Teaching Relationship Helped Ease the Daily Pressures of Teaching, Even During a Pandemic
It was early March 2020 at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Boston, Massachusetts. We—two seasoned public school educators—were getting ready to wrap up our second year of co-teaching. Despite...
CRT
Three (Ignorant) Arguments Used to Ban Critical Race Theory
To understand the legislative attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) that aim to make teaching CRT in schools—including concepts like white supremacy, systemic racism, and the like—illegal, don’t get...
equity
We Don't Have to Wait for Permission to Create Restorative Model Schools
If our goal is to uproot the systemic racism and other prejudices that live within the structure of our educational system and in every school building, then we must move to make deep changes in many...
CRT
All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power
*In my Principal Joe Clark voice* I need all of the Black education activists to join me in a church basement conversation, expeditiously! I’m not liking what I’m seeing on social media, y’all. To be...