During a recent conversation, Murleen Coakley, principal of Greenfield Union in the Detroit Public Schools Community District, reminded me how much being a great principal is equal parts passion, intellect, and creativity. But...
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Cultural and Religious Literacy for Teachers is a Present-Day Imperative; it’s a quick win, period. Since 2020, PK-12 grade stakeholders have been in a state of uncertainty because of Covid-19. Here we are, months into...
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” ― Zora Neale Hurston I’ve come back to this piece several times and the one thing that remains constant is my progressive determination...
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...