Freedom fighting heroes come in all ages. At Mastery-Shoemaker, we have been blessed to have several students who lead and serve in their communities on a consistent basis—in small and huge ways. Recently, one of our students...
Category - Diversity
Each year in May, America observes Teacher Appreciation Month — a time when we pause to reflect upon and honor the life-changing impact that educators have on our children, and the important contributions that educators make to...
“Until we, as a nation, collectively acknowledge and address the unique challenges that teachers of color face every day, we cannot claim to be truly valuing them.” There is a mismatch in our schools and without smart...
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...
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...
After being shot on a high school football field in Philadelphia, @selmekki began considering teaching. He founded @BMECFellowship, which works to get more black males as teachers in the classroom. #AtlanticEDU...
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...
This interview was originally published in Edutopia for Black History Month. The theme of Black History Month this year is “The Crisis in Black Education.” The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National...