Education

Learning and Earning In This Era of Education Justice

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Actually, Yes, I’m About To Sing Hamilton At This Event

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You Don’t Have To Like It (Students Watch and Talk About Us, Anyways)

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I Put In Work And It’s All For The Kids [An NCTE Reflection]

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There’s A War Going On Inside We Ain’t Safe From [A Conversation with Lorena Germán]

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Bring Me A Higher Love

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Let Me See ‘Em Up High, This Is Not A Test [Part Two of Two]

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And All Of A Sudden, I’m So Good At Math

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An Informal, Vetted, Amplified Set of Issues People of Color at Your Conferences Already Know [Medium]

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My Students Are Already Twice As Good [Medium]

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The Urgency of Juneteenth for Educators [Interview with Dr. James Forbes]

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Of Dreams and Nightmares (Free Thoughts on AERA and The Work)

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Wakanda Schools and Why We’re Not Ready For A Shared Prosperity

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Teacher Leadership As A Flawed Endeavor [Medium]

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Thank You For Your Service, Still

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I Keep Fallin’, But Never Fallin’ Six Feet Deep (The World Is Ours)

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Of Mutual Cares [An EduCon 2018 Reflection]

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On ELA, Math, and School, Because We Gotta Talk School

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Peculiar, Particular, Educational Intellectual

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Skipping The Classes I Don’t Need

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Two Days Down, Forever To Go

Some Of Us Gotta Fight For Ours

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Rebecca Solnit and How Pockets of Hope Have Saved America

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And That’s When I Got A Phone Call From Secretary DeVos

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On Global Teacher Prize Winner Maggie MacDonnell and What Humility Looks Like

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Meet Me Inside, Meet Me Inside

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I Only Do This Because You’re Doing Well [Stop Asking Me About Your Grades]

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Superpower [A Tough Love]

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A Story About The High Expectations Conversation [The Art of the Professional Insult]

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Kalief Browder and the School-To-Prison Pipeline

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If You Teach And No One Learns, Did You Really Teach?

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Text From My Speech at #March4EducationNY

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Why I Will March (Stand For Something)

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W.E.B. DuBois and Dual Consciousness For Teachers of Color

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With An Upright Zeal (On Teaching With This Fire)

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Don’t Blame The Kids (On The Women’s March and Getting “Woke”)

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What Educators Can Do Now To Honor MLK Besides Post Quotes [On #MLKNow]

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My Child, Your Child, Everyone’s Child (Five Years An Actual Father)

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How This Educator Handles Trolls (Bob and Weave Em)

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A Reaction To Mayor de Blasio’s Equity and Excellence Plan [Math for America]

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Becoming National Board Certified (Third Time’s The Charm) [The Standard]

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Politics Are Always At Play In Our Classrooms

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Three Ways To Reclaim Your Joy As A Teacher

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A Few Questions With Marylin Zuniga (An Interview)

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Let Students Pronounce Themselves (On Pronouns and Identity) [Guest Post]

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Fear of a Black Educator, Part 2

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Fear Of A Black Educator, Part 1

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Love and Hate, Sorta (It’s Only Been Two Days)

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Race, The Little Rock Nine, and Our Obligation as Educators [Video]

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Kaepernick: Standing Up By Sitting Down and How Our Kids See Patriotism

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