Ya Don’t Stop: A Review of the 2023 HipHopEd Conference

In honor of Black Music Month, I’d be remiss if I didn’t take time to recognize the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and the significant impact that the culture has had on my life as a student and an...

AAPI

AAPI Heritage Month 2023: Cross-Racial Coalitions Provide Blueprint for Support

Almost 30 years ago at the University of California, San Diego, the late Chicana feminist and activist Elizabeth Martinez coined the term Oppression Olympics during a discussion with Angela Davis...

anti-racism

Black Students, Expelled Tennessee Justins face Same Struggle

In his classic book The Miseducation of the Negro, Dr. Carter G. Woodson stated: “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to...

women

The Women Educators Who Have Shaped My Teaching Career: Sara Demoiny

When I arrived at Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia as a teaching fellow in 2008, Salome Thomas-EL, the principal at the time, assigned me to the classroom of one of his star teachers,...

women

Women Educators Who Have Shaped My Teaching Career: Dawn Watts-Bolds

May 18th, 2006 will mark the day I completed my undergraduate education at Temple University. It was a proud day. My entire family was in attendance to bask in the moment. Graduation was the...

Math

10 Innovative Women Math Educators You Should Know

Through the Radical Math Talk podcast, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing some of the most innovative and brightest women in the math education space. In a field where 72% of K-12 math teachers...