Teaching

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

Some folx want to make getting vaccinated and wearing masks into a political issue  —  we’re seeing that all over — but it really isn’t about politics. I d

Can we finally all agree?  The pressure on educators is significant. According to a RAND study, stress was the most common reason that educators left teach

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

As schools across the country return to in-person learning, parents are divided. We thought the pandemic was over and, suddenly, with the surge of the Delt

When I was a twenty-nine-and-a-half-year-old middle school English teacher, I bought my first house. I was also single. Normally my singledom isn’t importa

Teachers across the country are anxiously awaiting the start of the school year and, although they are not technically “back on contract,” many have been s

We are halfway through summer and the 2021-22 school year is only a few weeks away in some communities. After countless disruptions caused by the pandemic,

This past year, I came the closest I ever have to ending my teaching career — midyear. Between August and December, my second graders and I had four differ