Charter Schools
Here's What We Need to Keep, Start and Stop Doing When We Return to School in the Fall
Across the country, teachers, families, and students have all had to adjust to a new way of teaching and learning over the past year. At Boston Collegiate Charter School (BCCS) in Boston,...
student achievement
I Know What the Challenges Are for Black Teachers and How to Start Fixing Them
I will never forget the moment last year when a seventh-grade African American student came to my door and said, “Mr. Taylor, I just wanted to stop by and say hello, and I want to be like you when I...
COVID-19
We Have No Idea What This Year Has Been Like for Our Kids
One year ago, my now-kindergartener left his bustling and diverse transitional kindergarten classroom with sensory learning areas designed for academic and social skills development to set up shop in...
Diversity
Here's How Culturally Sustaining Curriculum Roots Students in a Legacy of Strength
I started my teaching career teaching music. I’d been a professional musician for a decade—performing, touring and recording jazz and Latin music. With some experience as a teaching artist and a...
Teaching
This Teacher Uses the Beatles To Teach His Students Latin
We value innovation here at Education Post, and New Jersey teacher Keith Andrew Massey is chock full of it. Massey teaches Latin. We’re still living through a pandemic, in case you hadn’t heard. So,...
Teaching
Following the Chauvin Trial Is Traumatic. Don't Turn Away.
When we bear witness, when we become the situation—homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death—the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure...
