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Don’t Talk About The Need For More Diverse Teachers. Show Us What You’re Gonna Do About It

March 3, 2021
by Jack Perry
4 min read
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We all know that a teacher’s instructional skills matter for students. But a growing body of research shows that their background and life experience matter, too. This is especially important for students of color: while all...

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The Role of a School Leader In Setting A School’s Culture

January 12, 2021
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Modeling Behavior, Consistency, Collective Accountability, and Relationship building You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.—Malcolm X Being a principal is a rewarding profession. It is also one of the...

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If the Teachers of Color at Your School Are Invisible to You, Why Would They Stay?

January 8, 2020
by Keisha Rembert
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I reread it slower this time, an email sent to 40+ staff members with the subject line, Congrats and Great Work, from my principal. The email was a glowing account of one of my colleagues’ recent...

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What Does A School Turnaround Look Like?

April 13, 2018
by Hilderbrand Pelzer
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Hildebrand Pelzer III, the principal of a public school, lays out the hard, slow work of improvement—and what it takes to turn schools around. On tough days, I want to close my school and start a new one from scratch. But I’m...

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Are Schools Seeking Black Overseers to Control Black Students?

September 27, 2017
by Kelli Seaton
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A very successful educator sent me a text not long ago that said that all of the deans in a particular school are Black males. It raised an interesting and perennial question: Why are so many deans Black men? Is managing school...

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Camden Principal Dr. William Hayes on Building Relationships, School Climate and Teamwork

May 24, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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This is a guest post from Tre Johnson, deputy director for JerseyCAN and a leadership member of The Fellowship–Black Male Educators for Social Justice. It originally appeared on the JerseyCAN blog and was reproduced here with...

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