Diversity
If We Really Want to Teach Black History in Schools, We're Going to Need More Diverse Books
In 2018, classrooms around the country still do not have enough books that accurately depict the unsullied experiences of Black Americans. Every Black History Month, teachers develop curricula often...
Teaching
We're Just Hoping All These Active Shooter Drills Don't Become Reality in Our Schools
The glue gun was heating up in the corner to affix the last popsicle stick on the fifth grader’s biomimicry project. “Bio” means life and “mimicry” means imitate so students were creating inventions...
Teaching
Stop It With the Arming Teachers BS
Hi, gun advocates, teacher here. We need to talk. Stop with the arming teachers BS. Stop it. Really. There are so many things wrong with that line of thinking. The argument that school staff need...
Achievement Gap
Here's One Way We Could Keep More Black Male Educators in the Classroom
Does being me give me an advantage in my inner-city classroom? I often reflect on this question because every school year I learn from a handful of students that I am their very first Black male...
School Discipline
Here's How the #MeToo Movement Is Continuing in Our Schools
In her Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey addressed young girls around the globe by saying, "When that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of...
Diversity
Black Literature Still Matters After February
I remember how it felt to read “Macbeth” for my high school English class. I yawned as my head went down on my desk. When I looked around, I noticed I wasn’t the only one of my classmates...
