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An Open Letter to the Listeners (The Heart pt. 5.5)
December 9, 2024
Building Community Amid Uncertain Doom
December 5, 2024
Don’t Obey In Advance
November 8, 2024
Juan Soto and the Trouble with Progressive Education
October 23, 2024
Building The Bridge Between Old and New Math
October 17, 2024
Something Bigger Than Me (Recruiting Teachers with Students and Teachers)
October 2, 2024
On Being Haitian and What We Teach Ourselves
September 20, 2024
Middle School Prepares Us For Social Science Thinking, Too
September 16, 2024
A Brief Reflection on My Dissertation and Teachers’ Labor
September 2, 2024
They’re Still Not Like Us (Math and Our Values)
May 23, 2024
Critical Race Theory Is About You, and All of Us
April 5, 2024![Featured image for “What Choice Do We Have? [On School Choice]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pexels-photo-4631066.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&quality=80&ssl=1)
What Choice Do We Have? [On School Choice]
March 21, 2024
Professional Development Done With Us, Not To Us
March 13, 2024
Professional: A Word That Means Nothing and Everything to Teachers
February 25, 2024![Featured image for “Educators Get To Imagine Bigger, Too [On TED]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ted-world-theatre.webp?fit=1300%2C866&quality=100&ssl=1)
Educators Get To Imagine Bigger, Too [On TED]
February 13, 2024
On Professional Development and The Places We Don’t Have Yet
February 9, 2024![Featured image for “Scenes from an Unopened Curriculum Binder [Pt. 1]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pexels-photo-171183.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&quality=80&ssl=1)
Scenes from an Unopened Curriculum Binder [Pt. 1]
January 31, 2024
Are You More Savvy Than a Third Grader?
January 26, 2024
Shine On, Diamond (Patience)
January 23, 2024
You Couldn’t Sit With Us (An Observation about Teachers)
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What It Means To Stick With Love [About King and Us]
January 15, 2024
Why I Changed My Mind About Teachers and Education Theory
January 12, 2024
Who and What Will Colleges Defend? (On Claudine Gay and The Rest Of Us)
January 8, 2024
American Dreams, Wraiths, and Asylum Seekers
January 3, 2024![Featured image for “What I Get To See In Us [2023 Year-In-Review]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/C2377DE8-7B93-4BA6-B870-42D09C4A7D4A_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&quality=80&ssl=1)
What I Get To See In Us [2023 Year-In-Review]
December 31, 2023
A Note on Nikki Haley, Slavery, and Teacher Professionalism
December 29, 2023
Tired of Being Tired (Towards A Better 2024)
December 27, 2023
‘Origin’ and Teaching Our Son Before The World Does
December 22, 2023
What Does A Good School Even Mean?
December 20, 2023
Learning Loss and the Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn
December 18, 2023
For Educators Who Get In Trouble But Want To Stay In Their Professions
December 15, 2023
Death By Millions of Cuts (In Defense of NYC Public Schools and Beyond)
December 13, 2023
Difficult For Whom: A Conversation about Conversations and Systems
December 10, 2023
The Problem With How You Discuss Reading
November 27, 2023
Abolish School Supply Lists, Too
September 11, 2023
What Spongebob Taught Me About Optimism In The Now
April 10, 2023
What The American Teacher Act Shows Us About Education Now
January 2, 2023
Cry On The Last Day of School, Too (on Abbott Elementary)
October 10, 2022
We Put The Public in Public Schools (A Reprise)
July 27, 2022
Where Contrition and Closure Go Hand-In-Hand
June 30, 2022
It’s OK To Not Have The Words
May 29, 2022
A Word About The Work We Must Do
February 6, 2022
God Keeps Me and Us Around (2021 Year-In-Review)
December 31, 2021
College, Career, Or Whatever Readiness
December 12, 2021
What Gets Taught
November 28, 2021
Lessons of Youth Activism, Climate Change, and Climate Justice
November 14, 2021
Sunshower, Just The Sign Of The Power (On Parenting and School)
September 26, 2021
Big Educator Energy (Pt. 1)
August 30, 2021