Teaching is Nation-Building: A Love Letter to Former Students Turned Current Educators

Glad tidings arrived a couple weeks ago. Fatima Ponzo — a former student we watched grow up in our school community at Shoemaker Campus — wrote to say she has her own classroom now....

You Should Hold Both Convictions and Questions About This World

As I enter into my 45th year of life, I have been thinking about how little we actually know about this existence while being...

Students Feel the Aura of Real Black History

In my AP African American Studies classroom, my students brought what some scholars refer to as the inner curriculum: a first person perspective focusing...

Stay Woke and Watch Your Back

My Aunt Maryam never let us leave her presence without the same farewell: "Stay woke and watch your back. Ma'a Salaamah." She was our matriarch....

“American Values” Can’t Corrode Because They Never Truly Existed

Asma Khalid has written a beautiful, painful essay in The Atlantic, titled “Islamophobia Has Corroded American Values.” She tells of bullet holes found in...

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Want to Save Our Country? Run For School Board

Our democracy is in trouble. If you are reading this blog post, you are most likely invested in success of our next generation and...

The Most Powerful Person at a School Board Meeting Is You

The most powerful person at a school board meeting is not the board president or the superintendent. It is each member of the public whose...

Most People Know Almost Nothing About School Boards, That’s Not Okay

It’s probably a safe bet that you do not know what your school board accomplished this past year or what their priorities are. Typically, school...

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