Sustaining Joy through Challenges
Never underestimate how sharing your personal joy work can have a positive impact on others especially during these continued times of uncertainty. ...
Prioritizing Social Emotional Learning in the Age of COVID-19
For many of our learners, being present at a physical school building, and having a relationship with an educator is essential for their health and well being. It is the source of stability, peer...
The Quiet Kid
I have stopped counting how many times I have heard colleagues say “I have an Asian kid and she is so good because she is quiet” or “Asian kids help our test scores” and the most recent,...
10 Rules for the Powerful Virtual Teacher
“Students need to hear the joy in your voice and see the smile on your face, even if you have to fake it.” After centuries of traditional classroom instruction, teachers and students across the...
Are You A Community School or a School Within a Community?
While pursuing social media, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, I came across an image on Instagram that really struck a chord with me. The image was a quote posted by the...
Are you Using Technology to Change Teaching or Change Students’ Lives?
Because of the expansive body of resources made possible by technology, teachers have the opportunity to embed culturally responsive content into their instruction. They are not bound by text-books,...
A New Look at White Flight Inside Public Schools 1.0
Why is there not a high representation of people of color in these classes? What are the invisible barriers that are in place that guide students of color not to take upper-level classes? What...
7 African American Novels for Teachers
These men and women have the same basic education I do, and the same access to texts by black authors, but don’t see it as their job to find texts by people of color for their students....
LET Them Write
Kids need creative writing now more than ever. When the 20-21 school year kicks off, welcome them into your structured classroom (in-person or virtual) and LET them write!...
The Power of Representation
The message that was sent to me, through schooling, was black women from the hood are not writers, speakers, and we don’t have anything to say that other people would listen to and be inspired by. ...
