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Elizabeth Thorn Scott Flood, Black Educator Hall of Fame

February 21, 2021
by Center for Black Educator Development CBED
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E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Phillys7thWard.org, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of Famer. But, don’t forget, e’ry month is Black History...

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Dr. Marcus A. Foster, Black History Hall of Fame

February 13, 2021
by Sharif El-Mekki
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E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Phillys7thWard.org, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of Famer. But, don’t forget, e’ry month is Black History...

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Caroline LeCount, Black Educator Hall of Fame

February 3, 2021
by Center for Black Educator Development CBED
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E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Phillys7thWard.org, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of Famer. But, don’t forget, e’ry month is Black History Month...

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Educators, If You Aren’t Consistently Asking ‘How Are The Children?’, You’re Asking The Wrong Questions.

December 21, 2020
by Dr. Robert Harvey
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On the sun-glazed African continent, the most storied warrior people, incomparably formidable and sagacious in war, is the Maasai. It is perhaps unexpected, then, to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Maasai...

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

November 15, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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“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 and fraught elections of our lifetime, Joe Biden was chosen to be...

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

November 3, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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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 leaves that flows from the savage anti-Blackness at the root. Nearly a...

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We’ll Know You’re Serious About Equity When It Is Reflected in the Teacher Workforce

October 11, 2020
by Jason Allen
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Education has never been something that has been valued in the United States as evidenced by our nation’s leaders continually cutting the education budget. They take away the capital needed for programming, initiatives, and...

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Guilty Pleasures: Keeping It Real On Education Podcasts

October 6, 2020
by Raymond Ankrum
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Guilty Pleasure. One of my new found guilty pleasures is creating content on the 8 Black Hands Podcast @8blackhand1 (on twitter). Each of us has our strengths, and we all push each other to explore areas that...

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An Open Letter to White Teachers of Black Children

September 11, 2020
by Rann Miller
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… If America is going to become a nation, she must find a way—and this [Black] child must help her to find a way—to use the tremendous potential and tremendous energy which this child represents. If this country does not...

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In The Corona Chaos, There’s An Opportunity To Advance The Banner For Educational Justice

May 20, 2020
by Atnre Alleyne
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If you take the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, add the massive Black-white wealth gap, and then mix in America’s ungodly lack of social safety nets; Black families are about to be served a hellacious helping of...

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