Belief Gap

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

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...

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

This week was Teacher Appreciation Week, one of my favorite weeks. After all, it honors a profession that should be considered one of the...

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

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...

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

Some of the most contentious decisions in a city often involve schools that are struggling - many for generations. While everyone can give solutions...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

“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:...
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