anti-racism

As the school year begins, we hear lots of deficit-laden words like “Title I,” “tough,” “low-income,” and “low-achieving” to describe primarily Black and b

This is the note. This is the note. Mr. Walters, my middle school choir teacher, took his love of music and teaching music seriously. He would say those wo

I can name the Black educators I had growing up on one hand.  One. Hand.  And if I add the ones I had in college and graduate school, I’m still on that sam

Education remains one of the Black community’s most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learnin

The great James Baldwin once stated, “A teacher who is not free to teach, is not a teacher.”  As many of you already know, there is some real shit going on

The day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 ½ years in prison for killing George Floyd, writer Melinda D. Anderson tw

For America’s teenagers, the void of the 2019-2021 school years runs deep. High schoolers missed out on time with friends, prom, graduation, athletics, and

How many teachers in your K-12 experience do you feel truly impacted you? It’s a Saturday afternoon in early June, and urban education expert Kwame Simmons

For more than 35 years, Donna Housman has been helping young children, their teachers and their caregivers build their emotional intelligence. At the Housm