student support
There Is a Right Way to Process Current Events With Your Students
The certification of the electoral votes from the 2020 election was already going to be a contentious issue, but the events that transpired go far beyond politicians yelling at each other on C-SPAN....
History
Our Students Need More Than Our Outrage, They Need Dialogue
On the afternoon of last Wednesday’s attempted insurrection at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., Twitter was a refuge. While living and working in pandemic-related isolation, educators...
History
We Have to Teach About What Happened at the Capitol Yesterday
I sat yesterday after school watching the news, Twitter and my email, mortified by the actions unfolding in our nation’s capital (and across the nation), as Trump supporters arrived in D.C. to...
remote learning
The Most Important Question a Teacher Can Ask Is ‘How Are the Children?’
On the sun-glazed African continent, the most storied warrior people, incomparably formidable and sagacious in war, is the Maasai. It is perhaps unexpected, then, to learn the traditional greeting...
educational justice
Statues Are Only One Kind of Monument to White Supremacy
Every year, I ask my students to identify phenomena in our world that are both imagined and real. In other words, what are some things that: Have not always existed? Have or can change? Society could...
equity
Our Children Need Us Not to Grow Weary in the Work of Anti-Racism
I am finding it difficult to get through most days without crying, without feeling like water is rising above my head, without feeling a great sense of despair. I feel a heaviness in my chest....