I am a former school leader and a current educational strategist who works with charter leaders from all across New Orleans. Together, we have been thinkin
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If It’s Important for Girls to Lead, Let’s Make It a Priority at School
Coronavirus has given us little to celebrate. My hope is that one of the silver linings during this crisis is that all students, but especially girls, have
Read MoreNow Is the Time to Reimagine Education for Students of Color
Everybody’s waiting on the day when things will go back to normal. Not me. Don’t get me wrong—I’m all the way over COVID-19. Tired of talking about it and
Read MoreWe Can’t Return to Status Quo When This Pandemic Is Over
Just by way of introduction, let me begin this post the way I have begun most conversations in the past month: I am both exhausted and privileged to be so.
Read MoreOur Kids Can’t Go Back to School Right Now, So We Need to Make Sure They’re Connected
Once again, our kids and communities are going to be hit hardest when the last respiratory droplet of the coronavirus dries up. That’s what I thought to my
Read MoreThis Is What Education Activism Looks Like During COVID-19
When you go back in history and look at who was leading the charge in the fight for liberation, it was always a person—or a group of seemingly crazy but br
Read MoreMy Kids Are Online All the Time Now And I Don’t Always Know What They’re Looking At
OK, I have a confession to make. I have not been as good at monitoring my children’s internet access as I should have been. If I had to grade myself, I wou
Read MoreHow ‘Social Distancing’ Is Changing the Way We View Schools
Paradoxically enough, as Washington, D.C., has slid from mass school closures into social distancing and working from home toward increasingly likely shelt
Read MoreNow Is the Perfect Time for White Teachers to Do ‘The Work’ of Anti-Racism
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, well, everything, but at times I find that I have more time to communicate, virtually if necessary, with family and fr
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