COVID-19
It's Online But It's Still School. Here Are 4 Tips for Your Child's Success.
It’s late August and school is happening from home. The pandemic has forced us to reimagine school whether we like it or not. Remote learning means that my 8-year-old will be next to me while I work....
COVID-19
Our School Already Started and It’s Not Like Anything I've Ever Seen
School buildings closed across the country last spring, and now, they are reopening. The reopening plans vary state to state, city to city, and from district to district. The options have been...
School Discipline
Statues Are Only One Kind of Monument to White Supremacy
Every year, I ask my students to identify phenomena in our world that are both imagined and real. In other words, what are some things that: Have not always existed? Have or can change? Society could...
equity
We All Must Call Out Inequitable Grading Practices
Chicago students demonstrated extraordinary character and resilience during the pandemic crisis transitioning from traditional classroom learning experiences to remote learning practically overnight....
COVID-19
COVID Changed Everything About My Classroom
I cried as I set up my classroom this year. This was no dainty, politely fighting-back-tears kind of cry. It was a violent, sobbing, heaving cry that started as an ache in my chest and climbed its...
equity
Kamala Harris Just Made Leadership Real for Girls and Women in Schools Everywhere
Although the teaching profession is female dominated, many positions above school level are held by men. We see this in administration, at the district level, and our superintendents across the...