by admin | Dec 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
As a kid, I didn’t look forward to the holidays as much as my classmates did because it meant more time in a home that was filled with trauma and inequities. My anxiety increased before breaks and I was probably much more difficult for my teachers to manage. School...
by admin | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Whether you’re running an online business, browsing the web, or participating in an online community, there’s a solid chance you’ll run into some form of racism. It’s not that everyone’s racist — although that argument could be made.* The problem is that racists tend...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
After 20 months of the pandemic, students are burnt out. The result is increasing mental health struggles among many, which has schools around the country scrambling to prioritize school counseling support. This is all during a time when students are being expected to...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
As schools across the country return to in-person learning, parents are divided. We thought the pandemic was over and, suddenly, with the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19, it’s not. We thought school closures were history and we’d return to in-school learning...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the last day of third grade, all my classmates and I huddled onto a carpet much too small for children of our size, waiting for our teachers for the next year to be announced. There was an obvious consensus about the best teacher. Students screeched in excitement...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control Elon Musk’s wealth has surpassed $200 billion. It would take the median U.S. worker over 4 million years to make that much. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. We’re now in America’s second Gilded Age, just...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s no secret that students have suffered academically and emotionally throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But should the brunt of the recovery process be borne by schools alone, or is a more comprehensive, community-wide approach the best path forward? Cue education...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
It is no easy thing to help high school students become better critical thinkers. Especially now. The very act of engaging students in the events of the world and helping them to understand and evaluate the complexities of competing narratives has been termed...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the profound inequities in education, especially for Black and brown students. The upheaval of the past year presents not only an opportunity, but also an imperative to improve teaching and learning. Rather than just...
by admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
In education, we have a tendency to overcomplicate things by getting caught up with sophisticated academic jargon for things that, I believe, are common sense. Differentiation, culturally relevant pedagogy, scaffolding … the list goes on and on. We can now...
