In the winter and spring of 2021, as the year of remote and hybrid learning continued, I started to notice a drop in attendance, particularly amongst my top-achieving students. Students have told me...
I wanted to write the standard feel-good piece for Teacher Appreciation Week. I really did, but it just felt inauthentic. Don’t get me wrong. I love teaching and I love teachers. However, it’s hard...
I started my teaching career teaching music. I’d been a professional musician for a decade—performing, touring and recording jazz and Latin music. With some experience as a teaching artist and a...
I am a firm believer that in order to become an anti-oppressive educator and advocate, one must fully understand the nature of oppression. While finishing my dissertation last year, I spent a...
I swear I wasn’t trying to end Black History Month with white people and skinfolk that ain’t kinfolk foolery but ... Yesterday my homie, Dr. Charles Cole III, tagged me in a tweet with a screenshot...
When I was eleven, my teacher divided our class into groups of four to complete a project on the United States Constitution. The three other members of my group, all Hispanic, had already gathered...
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