Teaching

This teacher said a thing and I thought all hell would break loose.  It happened last week when my 8 Black Hands crew recorded a live podcast at a gatherin

This summer, my students and I learned that blue crabs are really feisty, but mosquitos are even feistier.  For two weeks in June, I chaperoned a student f

My social media feeds were drenched with homophobia this week. People were saying how they really felt about my state, Illinois, joining other states manda

In a few short weeks, my classroom will be squirming with anxious excitement from a group of new first graders. But they aren’t the only anxious ones—after

Joining a new school community comes with a unique set of challenges. In addition to the difficulties inherent in any new school year, new teachers must al

“The Holocaust was an atrocity.” This was the example I gave my eighth graders as we were learning our words of the week. And with one word, I learned that

A tradition for many schools that educate predominately Black children involves welcoming the children back with scores of Black men cheering them on as th

I was recently the subject of a hit piece in the Huffington Post, which tried to connect me to the Koch brothers because, as a volunteer in my local NAACP

In my fourth-grade classroom in Houston, Texas, the morning after Election Day 2016 was quiet. As students filed into the classroom, I asked them to make a