As a first-year teacher of students with disabilities in a large urban district, I faced huge inequities that even other teachers and principals overlooked. I taught a classroom full of students as...
Last week the Journey for Justice Alliance released a report called “Failing Brown v. Board.” The report is a direct attack on public charter schools and “school choice,” arguing that they perpetuate...
Steven was my oversized and freckled first-grade classmate. That basement classroom was bulging with students, with rows of tiny desks brimming with books and a teacher who liked order. We were to be...
“If you had a superpower, what would it be?” I was asked this recently, as we opened up a school staff meeting on how to better assist students. I thought for a while, as I was thrown off by the...
At the end of my junior year, I was expecting my daughter Alyssa, who was born right before my senior year started. It was a time of struggle. Ever since third grade, my dream had been to attend the...
