EdTech

AI In The Classroom: What A Year Has Taught Us

It’s hard to believe we’re starting a second full school year with generative artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms. From the start, there was a mix of excitement and nervousness about these new tools. It was clear that they had the potential...

Stories

student achievement

Teachers, You Never Know What Students Are Going Through Outside The Classroom

This guest post is by an anonymous, Oakland-based educator. One time my mom tried to kill me. She chased me with a knife, cackling like a witch. It was hide-and-seek—but it wasn’t, it wasn’t a game....

trauma

When Immigrant Families Are Too Afraid to Show Up to School, We Must Act

Imagine yourself at 6 years old, likely in first grade. You get on the bus or walk with your parents to school every day. When you walk into a classroom, you are learning to read, add and subtract...

Poverty

My Students Have Already Fought Endless Battles to Survive Before They Even Set Foot in School

Earlier this year, my first year of teaching ninth- and 10th-grade English, I taught a graphic novel called “Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty.” It tells the true and tragic tale of...

Parents

Sex Ed Isn't Enough, Our Schools Should Be Teaching Sexual Consent

My family and I know an adorable toddler who loves to chase other children and kiss them. My soon-to-be 5-year-old daughter is mortified by him. When he comes to lay one on her, she screams “No!”...

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