Something that educators love to tout, particularly white educators, is the diversity that they have in their schools; specifically, the diversity of its students. I remember in a previous district where I worked, a guidance...
The conservative media outrage machine is claiming a new victim: educators. A Tennessee educator teaching about racism in a “contemporary issues” class: fired. A Missouri school district’s director of equity and...
Kanye West once made a very poignant statement about identity in a song – yes, Kanye -said something poignant. He said, “everything I’m not made me everything I am.” There is plenty of evidence that explains why Black...
There is no debate concerning the significance of Black teachers. Black teachers are important for the outcomes of Black students; both inside and outside the classroom. In addition, Black teachers are not only preferred by Black...
Black teachers are powerful and not simply because a body of empirical evidence says so. It’s because for many of us, if not all of us, our passion for our people fuels our pedagogy. I realized this when I became a teacher...
What have we become in education when we deny children access to free meals? I come to this conversation about denying young people food as someone who once led a network of charter schools and cancelled the food service...
“The ongoing responsibility to community is what Black Philanthropy Month is all about. We musn’t confine our identities as philanthropists to the dollars we spend. Black philanthropy is ancestral. Prioritizing...
At the beginning of the month, we at the Center for Black Educator Development wrapped up our third Freedom Schools Literacy Academy (“FSLA”). The five week program again focused on building literacy skills and instilling a...
Much of the rhetoric concerning Critical Race Theory (CRT) has come from politicians and parents, many who are white, Missouri serving as an example of that. Educators have offered some commentary as well. Nine out of ten...
Ongoing negotiations in Congress about the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) have direct implications for increasing the ethnoracial diversity of our country’s educator workforce. Initially signed by President...
