Poverty
This Thanksgiving I'm Thankful for All the Education Advocates Who Make Doing This Work Just a Little Bit Easier
Outrage: Distractions Y’all, I’m irritated. The internet stays failing us and we believe almost everything we see and hear without doing our own research. Over the weekend, there were pictures from a...
Student Voice
This Weekend Students Across the Globe Are Coming Together to Recognize Our Collective Power
November 8, 2016. I was 17 years old. Like all other Americans, I had thoughts, feelings, hopes and fears regarding the election. But because I was 17, there was no institutional way for me to...
Parents
Explaining Social-Emotional Learning to Families Can Be Tough. Here's Three Things You Should Know.
Eighty-two percent of Americans think it’s very important for schools to help students develop interpersonal skills like cooperation, respect and persistence. Despite this, schools have historically...
Parents
How Kentucky’s Superintendent of the Year Got Autonomous Schools to Adopt the Same Curriculum
Understanding that the content we put in front of children matters, 50CAN, a nonprofit network of citizen advocates, recently held a session on the importance of curriculum and instructional...
Charter Schools
History Is Not a Spectator Sport and It's My Job to Engage My Students
In March 2007 I was finishing my second month of student teaching at Charters Valley High School in suburban Pittsburgh. I had completed drafting a lesson on the early effects of the Cold War in...
LGBTQ
This Transgender Awareness Week, Let’s Create Change, One School District at a Time
As the parent of a transgender child, I’m really not surprised by the Department of Health and Human Services’ recently leaked memo. This attempt to define sex in a way that excludes transgender...
