Literacy

The day my teaching changed forever didn’t happen in a classroom. It happened at the local mall, in a bookstore that was going out of business. No English

In the elementary classroom, teachers often shy away from teaching a more critical viewpoint of “traditional history” for fear of how this shift will be re

Articles on the release of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores rang an alarm of familiar decline: “Math scores remained relatively

Got you with the title, didn’t I? LOL! But since I have you here, let me tell you how to throw a big ass house party and change the game for our kids. Now,

Last week I attended a community town hall in Nashville organized by my friend Vesia Hawkins, a relentless and faithful community servant who brought toget

As a young boy, I wasn’t a bad person. I feared going into the classroom because I couldn’t read. Had someone intervened in third or fourth grade, I would

As a teacher, I know that to get students learning they must first enjoy the idea of learning. Teaching English language arts may seem easy, but nothing ab

Dear Black Students:  I want to tell you something controversial, something different from the messages most people will give you. I want you to know that

Once again there is a story about censorship in schools. A Catholic school in Tennessee has decided their students should not read Harry Potter because the