reflection

What Spongebob Taught Me About Optimism In The Now

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Where Contrition and Closure Go Hand-In-Hand

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God Keeps Me and Us Around (2021 Year-In-Review)

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Sunshower, Just The Sign Of The Power (On Parenting and School)

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Bob Moses and The Enduring Education Injustice

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The Lives That Chose Us (2020 Year-In-Review)

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Where Did Education Fail Us?

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Before This Virus (On NYC Schools and COVID-19)

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

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Take All The Space You Need (For Now)

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

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Keep That Same Energy, Tho [2018 and Beyond]

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Just Take It Slow, We Got So Far To Go

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

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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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Bring Me A Higher Love

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A Measure of This Teacher

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

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

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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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Six Years Gifted [One King for Three Kings]

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Labors and Dangers [2017 At Last]

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Two Days Down, Forever To Go

Some Of Us Gotta Fight For Ours

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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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Vivid Dreams and Hard Work

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

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Hope of a Black – Latino Educator (Evolution)

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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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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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Vacation Is Not Really Vacation, Pt. 1

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What This Teacher Means By Self-Care

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The Classroom Next Time (On My Last Day of School)

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What It Means To Speak Truth To Power (About That Medium Post)

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Education Policy’s Roost (On Social Justice Warriors)

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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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