Parents
More Than One Million Parents Voted With Their Feet to Choose the Best Option For Their Family
A new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) finds that enrollment in district public schools dropped 3% from school years 2019-2020 to 2020-2021, the first full year of...
COVID-19
4 Ways Administrators Can Better Support Teachers This Year
Teachers are walking away from education, but the pandemic has accelerated the exit of some educators. I have spoken to several principals who have not filled all vacancies for the 2021-2022 school...
CRT
These 5 Anti-Racist Books Will Help Level Up Your School’s Professional Development
Over the past year, I have been able to read a ton of great books focused on social justice, culturally relevant pedagogy, and disrupting white supremacy culture in our schools. With a new school...
Special Education
My Toxic but Open Relationship With Education Activism
Transparent moment. There have been at least 50 separate occasions throughout my adult life where I’ve contemplated leaving this rollercoaster of a relationship I have with activism. As a matter of...
whole child
It's Time to Dump Deficit-Based Data
As the school year begins, we hear lots of deficit-laden words like “Title I,” “tough,” “low-income,” and “low-achieving” to describe primarily Black and brown students in schools. Where does this...
Teaching
Why We Can’t Just Shut Up and Teach
It is no easy thing to help high school students become better critical thinkers. Especially now. The very act of engaging students in the events of the world and helping them to understand and...
