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A Room Is Enough

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On Showing Up As Our (In)Authentic Selves

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I Can’t Tell Them What They’ll Do (Classrooms, Justice, and Legacies)

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The Greatness [A Decade In Review]

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Some Thoughts on Math and A Culturally Relevant – Sustaining Education

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Dividing Fractions Directly and Other Things We Can’t Unknow

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Our Own Practice

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Juliot, A Letter

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Oh, Aight [Giving Them The First Word]

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Black Teachers as Reparations: My Remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus

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Come As You Are (Part 1)

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

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The Great I Am

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

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The Breaststroke (A Reflection on the 2019-2020 School Year)

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When Were We Ever Indivisible? [A Reflection on NYC Schools Chancellor Carranza]

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Thanks For Coming To My TED Talk (For The Culture)

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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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Where We Belong

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Teaching Intolerance

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What You’re Not Gonna Do [Vox]

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Take All The Space You Need (For Now)

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

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You Don’t Have To Lie (Hire More Black Teachers, Maybe)

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MLK’s Work Precedes Us And, With Resilience, Lives After [Medium]

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On Creativity and The Stories Our Schools Tell Themselves

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Keep That Same Energy, Tho [2018 and Beyond]

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A Book That Tells Teachers How To Talk About Race. No, Really. [Not Light But Fire]

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A Reminder About Teaching Students Math in NYC (And Beyond)

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Every Morning Is An Affirmation

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A Measure of This Teacher

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Have You Ever Seen A Class Goin’ Apesh**? [Part One of Two]

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A Letter From An Inner City Classroom (and This Teacher Is Your Brother)

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The Work (A Poem)

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

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

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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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Some Of Us Gotta Fight For Ours

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The Relationship Between Humility and Teacher Leadership [Medium]

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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The Trump In All Of Us

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Why Are You Looking For The Living Among The Dead?

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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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Text From My Speech at #March4EducationNY

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

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