equity
I Teach High School Math: How I Lead with Equity in Mind
As a 10th-grade math teacher, I’m getting a lot of questions about whether I’m feeling pessimistic amid so much bad news about student learning loss. The answer is a resounding no. It's true today’s...
Inclusion
What Are We Willing to Lose So Our Kids Can Gain?
“I’m scared.” These were two words an elementary teacher uttered after a professional development “lunch-and-learn” I facilitated a couple of years ago for an elementary school. The topic was...
anti-racism
As California Goes: States Will Experience Growing Pains Without Affirmative Action
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on EdSource. Now that the Supreme Court has decided to end affirmative action in college applications, campuses across the nation must learn from both the...
anti-racism
The Supreme Court on Affirmative Action: Who Will You Blame Now?
It was 2001, and I was a freshman at Purdue University majoring in English education. I was walking on campus with a group of white female “friends.” One of the women started complaining about how...
EdTech
Ed Tech Tools: Don’t Ask Students What They Want to Be
Here's What Schools Should Ask Instead and How Ed Tech Tools Prepare Them. Kids in K-12 schools are learning to be lawyers, teachers, technology experts, and healthcare professionals, among other...
LGBTQ
Trans Students Are Not Okay. Our Time to Act is Now.
Recently, while scrolling through my Instagram, I came across a reel that featured a passionate speech from Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, asserting to her Republican colleagues that she...
