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We Can’t Allow AI To Erode Young People’s Critical Thinking Skills

There is a particular kind of danger that does not arrive with force. It settles in quietly through normalization, embedding itself in the everyday...

Black Educators Teach From the Soul

When I entered the teaching profession, I had no idea what type of teacher I would become. I wasn’t even sure if I could...

Students Win When Principals and Parents Work Together

I believe the greatest untapped opportunity in our schools is the partnership between parents and principals. As someone who has experience in both roles, I...

Wanna Fight ICE? Teach the Students They’re Coming After

Each day, educators greet and teach bright, smiling faces of all colors, from all walks of life. However, amid much of the policy-fueled chaos...

Real Education Requires Confronting Our History

Education is often described as the process through which knowledge passes from one generation to the next. Yet anyone who has spent time in...

5 Steps to Actually Build the Black Teacher Pipeline

What was once a pipeline for funneling Black teachers and prospective Black teachers—particularly Black men—has become an attachment of leaky pipes, with many candidates...

Three Ways To Tell if Your Kids Have a Good Principal

Before writing this post, I asked my sons what a principal does. Their responses sounded straight out of television’s Abbott Elementary with tasks like checking...

Recruiting More Teachers Won’t Fix A Broken Education System

On January 30, 2026, the Philadelphia Citywide Talent Coalition announced a $200,000 recruitment campaign to help fill nearly 2,000 projected teacher vacancies for the...

Philly’s Grassroots Leadership in Black History Education

One hundred years ago, Carter G. Woodson intervened in the American historical imagination by insisting that Black life must be studied with rigor and...

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