School Discipline
Black Lives Matter in Schools This Month and Every Damn Month
On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, I had the honor of speaking at the Black Lives Matter in Schools Week of Action rally. The audience was mostly educators, with a few powerful students (several whom...
School Choice
Nobody Likes a Teachers Strike. Here's How We Can Work to Avoid Them.
Nobody likes a teachers strike. I know. I have lived through a number of them. And I'm doing it again this week. My life and my background speak to the importance of education and choice, two topics...
opportunity gap
How Our Rural School Is Closing the Opportunity Gap and Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers
Teacher shortages in Wisconsin, and across the country, have a stranglehold on the profession. Enrollment in educator prep programs in Wisconsin is down 30 percent. Teachers are retiring in droves....
California
You Can Come for Me But I Grew Up in the Community I Fight For and I'm Not Playing Politics
Outrage: How Much Longer Are We Going to Make Excuses for This Sham Public Education System? Ain’t no hope this week. Just straight up outrage. It’s been a sad ass couple of days in public education...
Diversity
We Cannot Go Another Month Without Teachers Knowing Black History
In just the past several weeks, school systems across the United States have, at last, taken the steps to elevate critical lessons from African-American history for our nation’s students. On January...
Teaching
I’m a Black Gay Man, and Supporting LGBTQ+ Kids Is Important to Me
Brian Coleman, who heads the counseling department at Jones College Prep, has been named the 2019 National School Counselor of the Year. This is the second year in a row that a Chicago Public Schools...