24 Aug The Education Revolution will NOT be Televised
The education revolution will not be televised…
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17 Aug That Thorn in Your Side is Trying to Tell You Something
DJ was always angry. He had no impulse control. He was the oldest of eight children with a mother only fourteen years his senior. His life trajectory was not good. Yet I was determined. This was one young, Black man for whom I...
09 Aug The Definition of Insanity
I soon became frustrated hearing, again, about the lack of academic progress and the seemingly constant excuse-making for failing to educate the children of my adopted hometown. Institutional and community memory is a funny thing.
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20 Jul #Equality #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion in #K12Education
The root of the word integration is integer. The Latin meaning of which is “to make whole.” (Thank you Mr. Sousa. Those three years of Latin still come in handy.) Here it is 2018. I would argue that most students of color in...
06 Jul What to the Learner of Color Is Your 4th of July?
His words still ring true and, interpreted under a different light, underscore the current state of public education for children of color in the United States today. I chose to take a bit of interpretive license in my blog post of today, examining...
29 Jun What are We Waiting For?
The school as an organism was stuck. Stuck in a mindset that fostered inertia. Stuck in a mindset that said, "These kids can't learn, and if they can, we aren't set up to teach them."
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15 Jun Could the Egyptian Pyramids have been Built by Aliens?
This week, three events incited my ire: the newly released data around racism in school discipline, Texas’ renaming of Mexican American Studies as Ethnic Studies, and the College Boards revision on the AP World History exam.
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08 Jun Urban or Rural, a Risk is a Risk
Over the seven months that I studied them, I saw tremendous (statistically significant) growth in their vocabulary and reading scores. More importantly, I saw the lights come on when they experienced success for the first time in their academic career. I saw their...
01 Jun Not Under, Just Not… The Paradox of Privilege
I am fond of Iyanla Vanzant’s statement: “You’ve got to call a thing a thing.” So… here’s the thing: Those learners whose underprivileged status is frequently cited as the underlying reason for their academic achievement (or lack thereof) are not. They are not underprivileged. They are not-privileged. As educators...
29 May Equity in the Age of ESSA – A Mathematics Problem
As I think upon the college and career readiness levels of which we are to prepare our learners, our most fragile and too-frequently disenfranchised learners, I cannot help but advocate that it is time to rethink what we teach. We must align our...