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Check Your Bias and Do the Work: What Teachers Can Learn from Angel Reese

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! As a former high school basketball player, and perhaps more importantly, as a Black woman, I found myself triggered by the “outrage” over Angel Reese’s end-of-the-game gesture that was deemed by some as a “classless taunt.” It brought me back […]

Posted inInstruction & Curriculum

What Teachers Can Learn from the 2021 Olympic Black Girl Magic

“She doin’ too much!” “Do it take all that?” “Show some humility!” and the ever trending “She looks like a man!”  I purposely quoted, verbatim, a handful of statements about nearly all the Black women currently killin’ the 2021 United States Olympic Trials in multiple categories.  What might surprise some readers is that this Black, […]