Education

A Brick In The Path (Promised Lands Are Never Promises Kept)

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Show Solidarity with Words & Actions

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Five Ways To Show Students You Care

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Text of My Speech in Little Rock, AR (Decenter Yourself)

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Between Little Rock and This Hard Place

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The Kids Can’t Read, But They Can Read You

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Choosing A School For My Son In A Segregated State (A Reprise)

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What I Hope To Tell My Kids About Muhammad Ali [Be Great]

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Who Are The Rest of Y’all? (On Dr. Emdin’s For White Folks …)

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Education Policy’s Roost (On Social Justice Warriors)

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Gritting My Teeth Over Grit (Bootstrap Theories)

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We Must Not Be Defeated (Optimism In May)

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A Reflection on Raising New Voices (About These Guest Posts)

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The Danger of Coloring Outside The Lines (Guest Post)

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Education Giveth, Education Taketh Away [Guest Post]

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Who Will Lead The Edu-Revolution? (Pulling The Race Card) [Guest Post]

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Drugs Can’t Get You High As This [Educate, Educate]

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What’s In It For Me? (On Male Teachers of Color) [Guest Post]

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What Does It Mean To Be A Public Intellectual In The Classroom? #AERA16

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The #EduColor Movement Meets The National Board [Video]

Watch Me Tear Down The House at Rutgers University [Video]

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Does Harlem Need Diddy or Educational Equity?

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NYCoRE 2016 and A Note on Educational Compliance

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The One Thing I Don’t Do When I’m Assessing Students

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College and Career Whatever Have You

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Real Solidarity In The Time of Education Reform

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Watch Dana Goldstein and Me Talk With Teachers at NJEA

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Schools on Trial And What Does Progress Mean?

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Justice Scalia, Affirmative Action, and Why Shame Is Not An Option

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Why We Must Believe (Our Formation)

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The Beautiful Teacher Struggle

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When Two Or More Of Us Are Gathered (An EduCon Reflection)

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Design of a Decade: Moments From 10 Years Of Writing

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What Happens When My Student Curses At Me [Teaching Tolerance]

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Are You About That MLK Jr. Life?

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My Reaction to the President’s State of the Union Address

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My New Year’s Resolve

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These Feet Will Drag (A Poem)

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A Bit About The “End” of No Child Left Behind

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Hope and the Teacher

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The Dea(r)th of Opinions [TFA and Writing As A Whole]

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The Students Always Do That

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Bad Teacherist [Reading Roxane Gay]

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I’m Not Racist, But My Kid’s Not Going There [On Segregation]

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How I Got Over [College Activism Is A Must]

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I Saw A Generation of Educators Destroyed By Silence In Tragedy [Howl Again]

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Mizzou Football and Why It Matters for Schools [LinkedIn]

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The Investment (A Message To New Jersey Teachers)

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Who Created The Cages? [About That Teacher Life]

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Like Water Off A Duck’s Back [A Note on Duncan’s Legacy]

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