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EdTech

Literacy Ed Tech Can Provide Invaluable Support At Home

I taught middle school English for years. I was an elementary literacy coach and an elementary librarian. My sons really had no choice but to love reading and learn how to read. What if you aren’t a...

Charter Schools

We Need To Be Clear About What School Choice Means

"Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you." - Howard Thurman It’s school choice week. For those fighting for the children who need choice the most, I salute...

Charter Schools

Charter School Leaders, Silence Is Not Your Friend

I see it all the time, and it hurts my feelings. Charter school leaders who obsess over every detail of their educational strategies and have a heart for creatively meeting the needs of kids in their...

How I Stumbled Into Culturally Responsive Education

While preparing a lecture about a historical figure, I stumbled across a fact about his sexual orientation that some might feel was unnecessary to share with my students, but I included it. My choice...

Literacy

Listen Up! ‘Good’ Readers May Not Be Effective Readers

You might assume that I am a “good” reader. I have an M.Ed in reading education and an Ed.D. I taught secondary reading and ELA for over a decade and read daily for work and pleasure. While I can...

anti-racism

Black Teachers Make Their Colleagues Better Educators of Black Students

Black teachers are powerful. Black teachers propel the learning and broader success of their students. New research shows that they also improve the racial competency of their white colleagues....