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Principals, If You Don’t Include Questions About Race, Class, and Privilege During Your Interviews, You Are Failing.

August 10, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
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Principals, if you don’t have your staff hired and ready for back to school, you have my sympathy. As all school leaders know, the best hiring season for teachers is early in the calendar year (around January to March). At...

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When Students Aren’t Proficient in Reading or Math, It Isn’t a Shame, It’s Violence

August 6, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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I’ve written about teacher accountability before, but I recently read a few things that got me thinking. The first was a report out of Los Angeles that showed that nearly half the teachers in Los Angeles’...

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It’s Not Standardized Tests That Educators Hate, It’s Accountability

July 31, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
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Education Week likes to frustrate me in the morning. Reading their article today about the retreat of the anti-testing suburban opt-out movement, I should have been happy, but a few word-bytes in it are restating flimsy...

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Ninety-six Percent of Pennsylvania’s Teachers are White. Damn.

June 29, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Imagine a doctor knowing vital, life-saving information about your health, but not sharing it with you. It would be not only unacceptable, it would be grounds for dismissal. Choosing not to act, when the data shows that the...

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I’ve Got Some Extra Teacher Appreciation for Those Teachers Who Are Uplifting Our Black and Brown Students

May 11, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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This week was Teacher Appreciation Week, one of my favorite weeks. After all, it honors a profession that should be considered one of the most important vanguards of our communities. They have one of the hardest and most...

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If You’re an Educator Who Thinks We Need to Hold Parents Accountable, You Need to Do Some Soul Searching

April 17, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Time and time again, I’ve heard educators say that the lack of parental engagement in their schools is what is holding them back. But, when I listen to families, in Philly or Chicago or any other urban city, I hear about the...

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Can Superhero Principals Alone Turn Schools Around? The Research Says No!

March 23, 2018
by David November
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New York Times columnist David Brooks recently penned an op-ed on the importance of excellent principals.  Among his chief assertions is the notion that great principals are the key driver of school improvement:...

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We Should Support Schools That Work. It’s Really That Simple.

March 19, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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Zachary Wright shares his reflection on some of the silly conversations that occur about governance. His original blog can be found on Education Post. Politics makes strange bedfellows. As a liberal who is theoretically...

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I’ve Taught in a School With Zero Accountability, It’s Terrible

March 2, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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By last December, the fall of my ninth year of teaching high school, I had been observed by teacher coaches, visitors from educational non-profit organizations, principals and assistant principals, no fewer than 15 times. Each...

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A Former Superintendent Wonders: What’s Missing From The Discussion About Schools That Serve Our Communities?

January 18, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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This blog was originally written by Joshua Starr, CEO of PDK International, and published on Chalkbeat.  I recently had the pleasure of visiting Sharif El-Mekki, the principal of a Mastery Charter School campus in...

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