Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In growing numbers, parents and political groups have a lot to say about education. Certain acronyms are drawing especially intense criticism. CRT, SEL, and DEI have inspired ravenous debate. The absurd assertion that educators are teaching white children to […]
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I’m an Ohio Educator Against HB 327
Ohio House Bill 327 Would Outlaw “Divisive” Concepts in Schools, Shred the Community Fabric Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! When my son was in the first grade, he came home from school and said, “I hate myself.” When I asked why, he said it […]
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Finally An Afrofuturist Textbook!
An Interview With the Editor of Conjuring Worlds Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Afrofuturism is highly-desired, but frequently a missing puzzle piece in many English Language Arts curriculums. B. Sharise Moore, a veteran educator and author of Dr. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars, hopes to change […]
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Where Are All the Black Mermaids? How Afro-futurism and Black Joy Saved my Black History Month
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Inevitably, as we ring in the new year, teachers begin to pull out their tried and true Black History lessons. Our shortest month begins to fill up with Jackie Robinson and Langston Hughes coloring packets, Civil Rights Icon research […]
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Teaching Truth: Teachers shouldn’t have to compromise on issues of hatred, racism, or prejudice
Monkey” Trial of 1925, the battles over integration after the 1954 landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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My Twenty-Five Minute Lunchtime Lesson on Humility
I went to Google during my lunch break to look up the phone number for our pediatrician. While searching, I came upon a different pediatrics practice that sports this as their logo: We’ve lived in Germany for a long time, and I’ve grown accustomed to (but certainly not accepting of) the use of blackface and […]
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In Protest – Picture Books to Read with Your Students before Someone Tries to Ban Them
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! By Julie Letofsky A Tennessee school board bans Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust because of two curses and “its depiction of violence and suicide.” A Texas woman wants to ban a Michelle Obama biography from school […]
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Why Transgender Students Need Teachers Who Aren’t Afraid
The battles taking place in the classroom in Virginia are at the core of what it means to be a teacher in American public education today. The debate over mask mandates, the US History curriculum, and how to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ students are all in the news today, with teachers and students in […]