Teaching

Often, there are instances in multicultural education that teachers are flat-out not ready for. Situations that can arise teaching low-income or students o

In my current role as an assistant professor of practice at a graduate school of education, one of the things I try to impart to new teachers is the import

A couple weeks ago, I had one of those days. After writing a whole post about how nice my room is, a post that included pictures of the soft-lighting some

Outrage: Black Kids Are Dumb, Poor and Incapable of Success Do y’all remember the line from “The Color Purple,” “I’m poor, I’m Black…I may even be ugly.

My son is a freshman in high school and this felt like my first report card pick up all over again. While I have access to all his grades and consistent pr

Nearly 60 years ago, our nation’s students watched as leaders of the civil rights movement pushed back against entrenched Jim Crow laws and re-defined Amer

On this day in Montgomery, Alabama, 63 years ago, Black people strategically rebelled against one of White supremacy’s ‘systems.’ That day, Black folks got

Here in Minneapolis, the word around town is that South High was designed by a guy who had spent his whole career designing prisons. There are thick concre

I have attended a lot of educator conferences this year. A common theme I heard over and over again is the challenge of teacher shortages. I decided to do