Education

Professional Development Done With Us, Not To Us

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Professional: A Word That Means Nothing and Everything to Teachers

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Educators Get To Imagine Bigger, Too [On TED]

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On Professional Development and The Places We Don’t Have Yet

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Scenes from an Unopened Curriculum Binder [Pt. 1]

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Are You More Savvy Than a Third Grader?

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Shine On, Diamond (Patience)

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You Couldn’t Sit With Us (An Observation about Teachers)

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Why I Changed My Mind About Teachers and Education Theory

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

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American Dreams, Wraiths, and Asylum Seekers

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A Note on Nikki Haley, Slavery, and Teacher Professionalism

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Tired of Being Tired (Towards A Better 2024)

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What Does A Good School Even Mean?

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Learning Loss and the Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn

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For Educators Who Get In Trouble But Want To Stay In Their Professions

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Death By Millions of Cuts (In Defense of NYC Public Schools and Beyond)

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Abolish School Supply Lists, Too

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What The American Teacher Act Shows Us About Education Now

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We Put The Public in Public Schools (A Reprise)

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Where Contrition and Closure Go Hand-In-Hand

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It’s OK To Not Have The Words

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A Word About The Work We Must Do

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College, Career, Or Whatever Readiness

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What Gets Taught

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Lessons of Youth Activism, Climate Change, and Climate Justice

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Bob Moses and The Enduring Education Injustice

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Our Collective Lesson Plan [On Teachers of Color In This Moment]

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We’re Not Even At Equality Yet

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

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Karen Lewis Taught Me

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To A Greater Glory [National Catholic Reporter]

Where Did Education Fail Us?

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

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Where Will You Get Your Educators of Color From Now? [Medium]

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Black Math Teachers Are Good For More Than Race Stuff

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A Justice Letter to Educators of Color and Conscience

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Let’s Teach in Pajamas Forever

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Some Remainders From the “Moving from Equality to Equity and Justice” Workshop for NCTM

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On Disaster Distance Learning in New York City

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Physical Distance, Social Collective Mourning [A Plague On All Our Houses]

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Transforming Schools Into Vehicles for Decarceration [On Morris’ Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues]

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They May Not “Know” Math, But They Can Tell They’re Divided

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A Note About the Fifth Year Anniversary of This Is Not A Test

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An Open and Extended Response (On Testing Season)

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Let Us March On ‘Til Victory Is Won

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What You’re Not Gonna Do [Vox]

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For New York City To Love Us Back [Teaching and Living Here]

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Just Take It Slow, We Got So Far To Go

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Learning and Earning In This Era of Education Justice

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