Your Thanksgiving Clip Art and Crafts Might Be Microaggressions. Here's How to Do Better.

Your Thanksgiving Clip Art and Crafts Might Be Microaggressions. Here’s How to Do Better.

In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to cease publication of six of the prolific writer’s works due to his demeaning caricatures of non-white ethnicitie

Read More
We'll Never Agree on CRT, but We Can All Agree We Want to Produce Students Who Do Good

We’ll Never Agree on CRT, but We Can All Agree We Want to Produce Students Who Do Good

Our world has been forever changed as a result of the pandemic as well as the racial unrest of 2020. We learned new ways of being — how to be alone, how to

Read More
Here's Why Black People Being Whipped at the Border Is Like the Public Education System

Here’s Why Black People Being Whipped at the Border Is Like the Public Education System

Look at this picture of a white man on a horse appearing to whip a Black man.  And no, this isn’t from the year 1712. It’s from earlier this week — the Uni

Read More
4 Ways Administrators Can Better Support Teachers This Year

4 Ways Administrators Can Better Support Teachers This Year

Teachers are walking away from education, but the pandemic has accelerated the exit of some educators. I have spoken to several principals who have not fil

Read More
These 5 Anti-Racist Books Will Help Level Up Your School’s Professional Development

These 5 Anti-Racist Books Will Help Level Up Your School’s Professional Development

Over the past year, I have been able to read a ton of great books focused on social justice, culturally relevant pedagogy, and disrupting white supremacy c

Read More
It's Time to Dump Deficit-Based Data

It’s Time to Dump Deficit-Based Data

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

Read More
Why We Can’t Just Shut Up and Teach

Why We Can’t Just Shut Up and Teach

It is no easy thing to help high school students become better critical thinkers. Especially now. The very act of engaging students in the events of the wo

Read More
Dr. Avis Williams

Q&A: Selma’s Superintendent Keeps Kids Learning, Even as COVID Rages

How did this native of Salisbury, North Carolina who joined the army right out of high school end up as a nationally recognized school leader and a member of the Chiefs for Change Future Chiefs leadership development program?

Read More
I Hope My Black Students Will Become Educators Too

I Hope My Black Students Will Become Educators Too

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

Read More