making
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Recapturing Manhood for Young Men of Color [Stopping Stop-And-Frisk]

June 11, 2012
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Leaving Things Up To God: On Community Activism and Education [#NN12 Reflection]

June 10, 2012
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A Short Note on Educational Leadership

June 5, 2012
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No Church In The Wild

June 3, 2012
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Provoked

May 31, 2012
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I Don’t Win Unless You Win, Kid

May 30, 2012
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An Open Letter To NYS Education Commissioner John B. King [Testing Isn’t Natural]

May 29, 2012
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Let’s Agree on This: Bring The Troops Home

May 28, 2012
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A Whole Month Left (A Freewrite)

May 27, 2012
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Don’t Grade The MTA

May 24, 2012
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Don’t Talk To Me About Personal Responsibility If …

May 23, 2012
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The Normalcy of School Segregation [It Matters If You’re Black Or White]

May 22, 2012
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I Don’t Write For Your F**king Approval [Channeling Kobe Bryant]

May 21, 2012

Amber Cabral Makes Race Palpable

May 20, 2012
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Privilege and My First and Only Meeting with Bobby Seale

May 14, 2012
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On Leaked E-Mails and The Eventual Uproar [Where I Call Joel Klein a Pirate]

May 13, 2012
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Four Months of Awesome [On Alejandro]

May 9, 2012

Now That You’re Done, You’re Still Wrong [#IKnowATeacher Series, part 1]

May 7, 2012
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I Went Through Hell, So I’m Expecting Heaven [On Speaking Up Again]

May 6, 2012
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Step Away From The Children

May 3, 2012
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Kenneth Cole and Our Intelligent Designs

May 2, 2012
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Doing My Part for High School Readiness

May 1, 2012

A Few Secrets About My Appearance at TEDxNYED

April 29, 2012

The Difference Between a Speech and a Lesson [Open Thread]

April 26, 2012
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The 5-Minute Break

April 23, 2012
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An Ode To The Big Tests

April 16, 2012

When Keeping It Real Goes Awry

April 8, 2012
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The Dreamer, The Believer [The Race Man Cometh]

April 3, 2012
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On Rue, Trayvon, and All Of Our Children [My First CNN Exclusive]

April 2, 2012

On Women and Teacher Voice [Video + Commentary]

March 29, 2012
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900 Posts, Because the Last 100 Didn’t Make It Easy

March 28, 2012
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Stay In Your Lane [A Math Teacher’s Lament]

March 27, 2012

We No Speak Americano [Future of Teaching]

March 22, 2012
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Do You Have A Trayvon Martin In Your Class? [Huffington Post]

March 21, 2012
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All Black Everything [Our Professional Selves]

March 19, 2012
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For The Love of Self, Get Yourself Checked Out

March 15, 2012

A Profession and a Promotion? Why Not Both?! [On The Future of Teaching]

March 14, 2012
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight

March 12, 2012
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Be Like Me: Just Write Five Different Blog Starters and Don’t Hit Publish

March 11, 2012
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Why Teachers Are Political [A Rant]

March 5, 2012
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Teachers Teach and Do The World Good [GOOD Magazine]

February 29, 2012
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My Friends, The Cops

February 27, 2012
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Have You Achieved Success at Success at Success? [A Reflection On My Own TDR]

February 26, 2012
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Why The New York Times Is Asking Me To Validate Myself

February 23, 2012
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Comments To That Snoop Dogg Article You Didn’t See

February 22, 2012
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Lost Article: How Snoop Dogg Can Help You Out Of The Edu-Dogghouse

February 16, 2012

FUBU for Teaching Standards [Future of Teaching]

February 15, 2012
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Occupy V-Day: The Greatest Love Of All

February 14, 2012
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What This Teacher Means By Whole Child Education

February 9, 2012
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Catchin’ Wreck

February 7, 2012