Social Emotional Learning
Can Black Students Get the Same Emotional Freedom as Travis Kelce?
Listen y’all, I’ve seen the Travis Kelce emotional outburst scenario play one too many times in the different schools I’ve worked in over the past 17 years. To pretend as if this doesn’t happen in...
Literacy
Must-Read Books: A Love Letter to Black Authors
Have you watched the devastatingly funny movie American Fiction with its remarkable cringe/laugh ratio? Honestly, even if you haven’t, you intuitively know everything said about the “establishment”...
Math
Erased from the Equation: Black Mathematicians in the South
In the annals of mathematical history, there lies a largely untold narrative: the contributions of Black mathematicians in the southern United States. History matters in math, and this editorial...
EdTech
Is AI Cheating? Using Keystrokes to Catch Plagiarists
ChatGPT has released a tsunami of plagiarism issues in classrooms around the country. What if the answer to these issues was something very basic – the way that students actually write using...
Math
Cultural Erasure: Is Math Teaching Whitewashing Black Genius?
In the vast, intricate quilt of mathematical history, the contributions of Black minds are hidden from sight when, instead, they should be some of its most vibrant threads. And when we sideline the...
EdTech
This year, I’m Black to the Future. | Black History Month 2024
Consider this lesser-known vignette from 1968: Captain Kirk, a white character, and Lieutenant Uhura, a black character, share an on-screen kiss in "Star Trek." At a time when 80 percent of Americans...