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Take Me To The Place I Love, Take Me All The Way

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The Path [A Reflection On My Tenth Year of Teaching]

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The Blackout (Why #BlackLivesMatter Owes Nothing To You)

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Mission High and the Full Beauty of the World

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The Prison of the Mind [On Kalief Browder]

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We Have A Long Way To Go With Testing, But Where To?

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#TheEmptyDesk In Our Classrooms [On Social Media and Educational Activism]

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Alright (My Identity in Passing)

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Is Public Education In the US Broken Beyond Repair? Well, Is It?

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What Does It Mean For A Student To Deserve Promotion?

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On Ron Thorpe and The Bridge Between Teaching and Leading

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Get Up Offa That Thing (Summer-Shaming)

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How I Engage With New Teachers [Gems from the Dirt]

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And You May Ask Yourself, “Well, How Did I Get Here?”

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Fred Klonsky: Institutional Racism Is Alive, And We’re It

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Not Business As Usual at the NEA (A Peek Into Institutional Racism)

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The Students at the Center of Your Education Movement

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For Us, By Us: 5 Tips for An Authentic Educator Voice

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Silence Is Violence [EduColor]

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Despite All My Rage

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Take Me To Church [On TFA, #BlackLivesMatter, and Education]

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The Karen Fitzgibbons In Us [Scenarios USA]

Agents Of The State

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What Jay Z Freestyled, Applied To Education Reform

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Much Ado About 20 Days Left [On Whatever Teaching We Have Left]

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Speaking on the Criminalization of Black Youth

Teacher Appreciation

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Stare Them In The Eyes

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Why Math Is A Social Justice Issue [Edutopia]

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Raisins Exploding In The Sun

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Of Challenge and Controversy (Why I Support Marylin Zuniga)

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Opting Out of Everything

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Recruiting Educators of Color In The Time of Race To The Top

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Gerson Borrero Interviews Me on Teachers of Color [Video]

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Why I Disagree With Robert Reich on College and Career Readiness

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This Is Not A Test, New York Edition [Thanks, NYCoRE]

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New York City’s Fractured Relationship With Teachers Of Color

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Up Next

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For What It’s Worth (On Blogging As A Teacher for Eight Years)

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The Crosshairs of High Expectations and Poverty

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There Is No “How To” For Teacher Leadership

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What Works For My Kids

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Why We Need Black History Month In The First Place

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White Administrators’ Guilt

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Rescinding My Invite to Governor Andrew Cuomo

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A System of Ninety Equations

Exclusive: The Classroom and the Precinct, Accurately [The Enemy]

Less Is More When It Comes To Teacher Time [Edutopia]

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For My Fellow Male Educators of Color

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How Radical Is Your Martin Luther King Jr.?

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