Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In my 20-plus years in education, the union has been in the background of my career until very recently. I have always known that the union negotiates contracts and would provide support if I needed legal assistance, but I […]
Social Justice
Your Students Deserve a Diverse Classroom Library. Here’s How to Set It Up.
Diverse Classroom Library: Our classroom libraries are in trouble. Just as more teachers are learning that their libraries need books that reflect their student populations, they also have to fight policies at the district and state levels that ban many of these same books from their libraries. Florida, for example, is banning certain materials in classroom libraries […]
You Don’t Have to Watch the Tyre Nichols Video, But Be Ready to Talk About It
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! “Ms. Lamons, did you hear?” My text messages and social media inboxes were flooded with the news of the release of the Tyre Nichols video. Almost ashamedly, I did not recognize his name. I did not know the backstory. […]
An Idaho teen who won his school board election has a message for educators
The Educator’s Room Interviews Shiva Rajbhandari Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Less than a decade ago, the idea of students serving on school boards was the topic of debate in places like the Atlantic. Jacoba Urist, writing for the Atlantic in 2014, suggested that even […]
Moving Beyond Diversity to Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Lessons from a Sunday Sermon
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Black teachers are leaving education at an alarming rate. What can we do to address this? Recently I gleaned some ideas from a Sunday Sermon at my church. Mary Stutts, Chief Global Health Equity and Inclusion Officer, author, and […]
50 Years and We Still Aren’t Fully Safe in Our Bodies!
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute that criminalized abortion except to save the mother’s life. The decision in Roe v. Wade established a woman’s constitutional right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. Yet, here we are in bodies that aren’t fully safe. Before we could reach the 50th […]
From the U.S. to Brazil, Educators Must Confront Far-Right Extremism
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! The scenes are familiar – protestors wearing national colors, pushing down barricades, beating police officers. Government buildings broken into, offices ransacked, and national symbols desecrated. It sounds like a scene from the far-right attack on the U.S. Capitol two […]
Environmental Racism Closes Jackson, Mississippi Schools…Again
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! An entire public school district goes virtual in September 2022 due to a city’s failing water system. Videos show dark brown water pouring from faucets in the homes of Jackson, Mississippi, residents during the same month. Fast forward to […]