Franchesca Warren

For fifteen years Franchesca taught English/Language Arts in two urban districts in Atlanta, Georgia, and Memphis, Tennessee. Increasingly frustrated with decisions being made about public education from people who were not in the classroom, in 2012 she decided to start a blog about what it was really like to teach in public schools. In the last four years, The Educator's Room has grown to become the premiere source for resources, tools, and strategies for all things teaching and learning. To learn more about Franchesca Warren's work, please visit www.franchescalanewarren.com.

Opinion

Hair Love Is What Your Students Need

by Franchesca WarrenFebruary 11, 2020

Last night the viral sensation, Hair Love the American animated short film written and directed by Matthew A. Cherry, and co-produced with Karen Rupert Toliver won an Oscar for the best animated short film and the internet shouted. Not because the film was done perfectly (it was) or that it represented for black girls what’s […]