Teaching

The other day I watched the documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.  https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1143251611801804800 Now if

This Wednesday, the California Senate’s Education Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill that would make local school districts the primary authori

Dear White Teachers of My Black Children: I am a Black mom and I have two children who are now in high school. Raising them to be inquisitive, informed adu

Seth Gershenson’s research on the impact of teacher expectations and their effect on students has made waves across the country. With the support of the Fo

It’s no secret that education in the city of Newark has had a tumultuous history. It’s a history with a complex narrative—going from a distinguished distri

Summer has begun and another academic year has officially ended…or as we exhausted educators like to say, “Tag parents! You’re it!” Truth be told, May is a

Back in 2013, when Principal Aaron Rucker first came to Auburn Gresham’s Ryder Elementary, he said someone in the central office warned him: “You’re being

I have vivid memories of teachers joining my school communities and then saying goodbye to them only a few years later. As a young girl, I always wondered

If you look up the word “visibility” in the dictionary, you get quite a few definitions including, “The ability to see or be seen.” When I was 12 years old