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Professional Development Done With Us, Not To Us

March 13, 2024
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Professional: A Word That Means Nothing and Everything to Teachers

February 25, 2024
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Educators Get To Imagine Bigger, Too [On TED]

February 13, 2024
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On Professional Development and The Places We Don’t Have Yet

February 9, 2024
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Scenes from an Unopened Curriculum Binder [Pt. 1]

January 31, 2024
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Are You More Savvy Than a Third Grader?

January 26, 2024
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Shine On, Diamond (Patience)

January 23, 2024
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You Couldn’t Sit With Us (An Observation about Teachers)

January 17, 2024
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What It Means To Stick With Love [About King and Us]

January 15, 2024
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Why I Changed My Mind About Teachers and Education Theory

January 12, 2024
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Who and What Will Colleges Defend? (On Claudine Gay and The Rest Of Us)

January 8, 2024
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American Dreams, Wraiths, and Asylum Seekers

January 3, 2024
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What I Get To See In Us [2023 Year-In-Review]

December 31, 2023
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A Note on Nikki Haley, Slavery, and Teacher Professionalism

December 29, 2023
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Tired of Being Tired (Towards A Better 2024)

December 27, 2023
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‘Origin’ and Teaching Our Son Before The World Does

December 22, 2023
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What Does A Good School Even Mean?

December 20, 2023
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Learning Loss and the Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn

December 18, 2023
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For Educators Who Get In Trouble But Want To Stay In Their Professions

December 15, 2023
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Death By Millions of Cuts (In Defense of NYC Public Schools and Beyond)

December 13, 2023
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Difficult For Whom: A Conversation about Conversations and Systems

December 10, 2023
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The Problem With How You Discuss Reading

November 27, 2023
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Abolish School Supply Lists, Too

September 11, 2023
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What Spongebob Taught Me About Optimism In The Now

April 10, 2023
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What The American Teacher Act Shows Us About Education Now

January 2, 2023
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Cry On The Last Day of School, Too (on Abbott Elementary)

October 10, 2022
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We Put The Public in Public Schools (A Reprise)

July 27, 2022
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Where Contrition and Closure Go Hand-In-Hand

June 30, 2022
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It’s OK To Not Have The Words

May 29, 2022
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A Word About The Work We Must Do

February 6, 2022
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God Keeps Me and Us Around (2021 Year-In-Review)

December 31, 2021
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College, Career, Or Whatever Readiness

December 12, 2021
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What Gets Taught

November 28, 2021
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Lessons of Youth Activism, Climate Change, and Climate Justice

November 14, 2021
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Sunshower, Just The Sign Of The Power (On Parenting and School)

September 26, 2021
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Big Educator Energy (Pt. 1)

August 30, 2021
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Bob Moses and The Enduring Education Injustice

July 25, 2021
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Our Collective Lesson Plan [On Teachers of Color In This Moment]

May 31, 2021
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We’re Not Even At Equality Yet

April 26, 2021
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Why I’m Opting My Son Out Of Standardized Testing (And You Can, Too)

March 21, 2021
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Karen Lewis Taught Me

February 18, 2021
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Before You Must Go (The Whole Trump of You)

January 20, 2021

To A Greater Glory [National Catholic Reporter]

January 19, 2021
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On This Insurrection, and The Next

January 10, 2021
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The Lives That Chose Us (2020 Year-In-Review)

December 31, 2020
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Where Did Education Fail Us?

December 23, 2020
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A New Narrative About The Secretary of Education, Too [Medium]

November 22, 2020
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Where Will You Get Your Educators of Color From Now? [Medium]

October 15, 2020
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Jose Interviews Mr. Vilson, Part 5: Now, It’s Every Classroom

September 20, 2020
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God’s Plan (A Requiem for Wendy Menard)

August 16, 2020