Stories

I'm Tired of School Leaders Condoning Bullies

The night of October 24th, while scrolling through Twitter, I found myself suddenly snapped back to my time as a college student at Penn State, and I haven’t been able to shake the deeply permeating...

Indigenous Peoples

A Call-in from a Native Educator Helped Me Change My Settler Colonial Behavior

In March of 2021, I was in the thick of the social media marketing campaign for my company’s inaugural Stay True to the Teacher in You Virtual Summit. The summit’s stated mission was twofold: to...

Literacy

Reading Instruction Is Not a Religion

Episode III of Emily Hanford’s latest podcast, Sold a Story, describes how New Zealander Marie Clay’s debunked theory of how children learn to read took hold in the United States. Two education...

Literacy

There’s a Reading Miracle Happening Down in Mississippi

Cora-Lisa Weathersby’s son Cameron loves to read. But last year, when the Jackson, Mississippi, third grader was assigned weekly passages of challenging text, filled with unfamiliar words, Weathersby...

Hocus Pocus in the Public Schools: The Witch Trials Come to Texas Education

Recently, my fiance and I fired up Disney+ and bathed in the nostalgic glow of "Hocus Pocus 2," the 30 years-in-the-making sequel to the '90s cult classic starring Bette Midler, Sara Jessica Parker,...

4 Action Steps to Creating Bully-Free Schools

Bullying is an epidemic in schools. It happens in so many different ways to scholars of almost any background and makes prevention feel impossible. As part of National Bullying Prevention Month, KIPP...