Back to school night. It comes every year, and it comes fast. It’s often the first chance you have to meet parents, share your vision of the year with them, and to open up your class showcasing the miracles you perform on a daily basis. It’s also stressful as all get out. But it doesn’t […]
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Middle School is Like This
Everything is already over before, while, during, or after it’s already begun. Nothing in middle school lasts. Failure, success, shame, anxiety—all of it is over as quickly as it has happened. This is sometimes a curse. You may succeed during your two classes in the morning but still have abysmal failures in lessons, classroom management, […]
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Good-Bye Biden: The impact on America’s educators
Joe Biden removing himself from the 2024 bid for the President of the United States will come with cheers and jeers. Some people will look at his decision’s global political implications. Others will look at the more intricate issues impacting everyday Americans with this political move. I look well beyond that as a former teacher […]
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Jay-Z and Roc Nation: Let’s have the conversation about school vouchers
As I listen to one of my favorite songs by the prolific rap artist Jay-Z, I reminisce on how the words in the chorus will forever motivate me as a first-generation college student from New Orleans. “Some how, some way, we gotta make it up the hood, someday.” For nearly thirty years, Jay-Z has been […]
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How the NBA’s Jaylen Brown’s Story… signifies the intentional demise of Black kids in America’s schools
“My teacher said she will look me up in the Cobb county jail in 5 years… Wow!” This was a quote published to Twitter, now X, in 2014. It was posted by a young Black man named Jaylen Brown, who graduated from Wheeler High School in Georgia. He grew up in a diverse community in […]
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Hey, Tech, Leave Those Kids Alone!
One semester into the school year, the students greeted me with embellished tales of all they had learned in the first three units they covered in 7th-grade math—I didn’t tell them they should’ve worked through five units by that point. With new students and a new school district, I used tech to devise a four-question […]
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Replay: Trends in Special Education: Rethinking Supports in a Post-COVID World
Are you seeking innovative ways to support students receiving special education services in school and at the district levels? Join our engaging webinar and delve into the world of evidence-based solutions to close the achievement gaps for our students serviced with IEPs and 504s. Explore how these collaborative supports can help propel your students forward. […]