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Thank You to All the Teachers Who Know That We Can’t Have Equity Without Love

May 22, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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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...

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If You Can’t Teach My Black Children, Admit It And Move On

May 17, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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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...

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I’ve Got Some Extra Teacher Appreciation for Those Teachers Who Are Uplifting Our Black and Brown Students

May 11, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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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...

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The Implicit Racial Bias of White Teachers Is Affecting the Educational Attainment of African American Boys

May 5, 2018
by Robin Muldor
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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...

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Educators: Are The Schools We “Love” Good Enough For Our Own Children?

April 22, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Some of the most contentious decisions in a city often involve schools that are struggling – many for generations. While everyone can give solutions that they believe (but haven’t often seen) work, there is a lot of...

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If You’re an Educator Who Thinks We Need to Hold Parents Accountable, You Need to Do Some Soul Searching

April 17, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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Time and time again, I’ve heard educators say that the lack of parental engagement in their schools is what is holding them back. But, when I listen to families, in Philly or Chicago or any other urban city, I hear about the...

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What Teachers Can Do To Help Black Boys Overcome Our Racist Society

April 9, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
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A recent study, reported on in the New York Times under the headline “Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys,” and facilitated by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and the Census Bureau, found that...

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I’ve Taught in a School With Zero Accountability, It’s Terrible

March 2, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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By last December, the fall of my ninth year of teaching high school, I had been observed by teacher coaches, visitors from educational non-profit organizations, principals and assistant principals, no fewer than 15 times. Each...

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An Interview with a 27-Year-Old Black Father: Trying to Avoid the School to Prison Pipeline

February 25, 2018
by Kelli Seaton
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In the article Is the Road to Special Education (for Black Boys) Paved with the White Educator’s Paperwork?, we meet Randy for the first time. Some Context Let’s imagine something for a moment.  There is a Black father...

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The Research Is In: A Diverse Faculty Makes A Difference. Do You Care?

February 12, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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“Your presence is an act of resistance.” —Vincent Cobb II, CEO of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice In October 2017, The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice invited Black male educators...

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