Teaching

It’s been quite a few days for the Supreme Court. First, they sided with anti-abortion right advocates in NIFLA v. Becerra. Then they upheld Trump’s Muslim

My wife and I are educators working at the same school. On a daily basis we navigate microaggressions in the workplace; unwillingness to use our married na

Just this year alone, Kanye West has said slavery was a “choice,” Roseanne Barr compared former Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape, Starbucks closed d

It’s June. The classroom walls are bare. The grit outlined empty spaces left behind by charts, posters, reading lists and student work jut out starkly agai

While much of the education reform world was convening in Austin for the annual charter schools conference this week, I snuck off to Albuquerque for the Ne

As we come to the end of another school year, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the teachers and parents who have dared to demand something different i

The end of the school year is always my favorite time. With standardized assessments finished, it’s my time to finally breathe, slow down to reflect on the

In light of recent school shootings, one of the proposed solutions has been to put more school police officers in schools. In the last 30 years, we have dr

As the school year winds down, I have been watching with interest a debate on social media among educators about the best answer to the timeless teaching q