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We’re Not Even At Equality Yet

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To A Greater Glory [National Catholic Reporter]

Thank You For Your Service, Still

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Labors and Dangers [2017 At Last]

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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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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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A Note About Identity and The Light That Guides Us

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

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What Philando Castile Taught Me About Fatherhood [Medium]

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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 Mathematical Five-Minute Tribute to Hamilton the Musical

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Vivid Dreams and Hard Work

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The Trump In All Of Us

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

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In Defense Of Our Dreams

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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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Top Posts of 2016, According To You [Year In Review]

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Politics Are Always At Play In Our Classrooms

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The Trump Voters 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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A Quick Note About This 40 Under 40 List Thing

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

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Hope of a Black – Latino Educator (Evolution)

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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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The Little Light Of Mine (On EdCampBrooklyn and Movement Building)

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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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The First Parent-Teacher Conference of One

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Major Key: What It Means To Have A Leader-ful, Not Leaderless, Movement

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One More Thing About Dominican Pride (Jose Vilson for Mayor)

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

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

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Vacation Is Not Really Vacation, Pt. 1

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Show Solidarity with Words & Actions

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