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There Are Strategies To Diversify The Teacher Workforce. What Are Yours?

Education was a second career for me—but it wasn’t for lack of trying to make it the first. In college, I pursued a major...

CHANGING THE UNACCEPTABLE: Happy Anniversary To The ASPIRING TO EDUCATE Program

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” —Angela Davis Last year today, the Commonwealth...

Virtual or In-Person, Good Classroom Management Starts With Instruction

Here’s a dirty little secret about teachers that few people care to admit: Many teachers with poor classroom management aren’t strong instructionally. I would never...

The Election Is Over. How Do We Help Our Students (And Ourselves) Heal?

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -Audre Lorde After one of the most tumultuous...

If You’re Not Talking About Black Literacy, Then You Are Talking About The Wrong Stuff

There are many phrases used in education circles; the phrase reading is fundamental must be one of the most used. I used to scoff...

Which Side Are you on, yaw? Which side are you on? I’m on the freedom side!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It’s hard to disagree when you consider the totality of the Black radical tradition—our struggle...

Do You Want to Know What Equitable Funding for Black and Brown Non-Profits Looks Like?

There has been an admittedly welcome rush to support Black and brown communities and causes in our national reckoning with systemic racism. Some $5...

America Has Always Showed You Who It Was. But You Should Have Believed It The First Time

Yesterday was Wednesday, November 4, 2020. Tuesday was our national election — a day that some people had been waiting to see for four...

Educators, How are you teaching about the strange fruit that our students continue to see?

In the 1930s, the incomparable Billie Holiday sang about the horror of Black lynchings—the strange fruit hanging from Southern trees, the blood on the...

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