Last week marked 64 years since the Supreme Court ended segregation in our schools. The Brown v. Board of Education ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson—the “separate but equal” law—supposedly so that Black children...
When I heard of Abdul Wright, the 2017 Minnesota Teacher of the Year, I knew I needed him to speak at our inaugural Black Male Educators Convening in October 2017. Read his blog post below and you’ll see why. And, while the...
Last year, I wrote a piece titled, 4 Ways We Can Support Muslim Students During Ramadhan and Year-Round. For the next decade or so, the month of Ramadhan will fall during the school year and schools should include awareness and...
Khulia Pringle wrote this article a few years ago. A recent comment on her blog inspired me to repost it. “I’m a black woman who is finishing a master’s in education. Right now, I’m a substitute teacher...
We held funeral services for one of our teachers three weeks ago. Carl Thomas Korpi was one of our most effective, engaging, and beloved educators in our school. He not only brilliantly taught our students chemistry, he taught...
You must never get discouraged in struggle, you will build something and the enemy will knock it down, and you will have to start from zero… -Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) I had the honor of starting my teaching career...
This week was Teacher Appreciation Week, one of my favorite weeks. After all, it honors a profession that should be considered one of the most important vanguards of our communities. They have one of the hardest and most...
It would be so easy to stop caring about race. Yes, I can only say this because I’m White. Yes, I can only say this because I’ve been so tempted so many times. It would be so easy, and I wouldn’t even have to make a big...
I recently participated in a Twitter chat, #4percent, with researchers from Research for Action and other educators as a follow up to RFA’s insightful recent report, Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining...
Of my twenty-five plus years working with and on behalf of children, about eight of those years were spent in schools where 99.9 percent of the students were children of color, and 85-90 percent of the teachers were white...
