making
the blueprint
possible.

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Before You Must Go (The Whole Trump of You)

January 20, 2021

To A Greater Glory [National Catholic Reporter]

January 19, 2021
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On This Insurrection, and The Next

January 10, 2021
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The Lives That Chose Us (2020 Year-In-Review)

December 31, 2020
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Where Did Education Fail Us?

December 23, 2020
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A New Narrative About The Secretary of Education, Too [Medium]

November 22, 2020
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Where Will You Get Your Educators of Color From Now? [Medium]

October 15, 2020
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Jose Interviews Mr. Vilson, Part 5: Now, It’s Every Classroom

September 20, 2020
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God’s Plan (A Requiem for Wendy Menard)

August 16, 2020
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Learning Relationships In The New Normal [Sponsored]

August 10, 2020
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It Depends On Who You Listen To (Yes, About School Reopening)

August 9, 2020
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re: My Nomination for US Secretary of Education

August 2, 2020
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Teaching Rectangles How To Find An Area

July 15, 2020
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Black Math Teachers Are Good For More Than Race Stuff

June 5, 2020
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A Justice Letter to Educators of Color and Conscience

May 31, 2020
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Let’s Teach in Pajamas Forever

May 3, 2020
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Some Remainders From the “Moving from Equality to Equity and Justice” Workshop for NCTM

April 28, 2020
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On Disaster Distance Learning in New York City

April 5, 2020
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Physical Distance, Social Collective Mourning [A Plague On All Our Houses]

March 25, 2020
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Before This Virus (On NYC Schools and COVID-19)

March 17, 2020
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And So We Persist (On LuzMaria Rojas-Vilson and Elizabeth Warren and …)

March 9, 2020
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Doing Too Much Is Not Enough

February 23, 2020
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I Love Teaching, Even When It Doesn’t Love Me Back

February 16, 2020
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A Room Is Enough

February 4, 2020
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On Showing Up As Our (In)Authentic Selves

January 30, 2020
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I Can’t Tell Them What They’ll Do (Classrooms, Justice, and Legacies)

January 20, 2020
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The Greatness [A Decade In Review]

December 29, 2019
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Some Thoughts on Math and A Culturally Relevant – Sustaining Education

December 19, 2019
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Dividing Fractions Directly and Other Things We Can’t Unknow

December 1, 2019
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Our Own Practice

November 17, 2019
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Juliot, A Letter

September 29, 2019
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Oh, Aight [Giving Them The First Word]

September 22, 2019
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Black Teachers as Reparations: My Remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus

September 15, 2019
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Come As You Are (Part 1)

September 1, 2019
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Transforming Schools Into Vehicles for Decarceration [On Morris’ Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues]

August 11, 2019
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The Great I Am

August 4, 2019
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They May Not “Know” Math, But They Can Tell They’re Divided

July 29, 2019
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The Breaststroke (A Reflection on the 2019-2020 School Year)

July 1, 2019
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When Were We Ever Indivisible? [A Reflection on NYC Schools Chancellor Carranza]

June 17, 2019
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Thanks For Coming To My TED Talk (For The Culture)

May 27, 2019
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A Note About the Fifth Year Anniversary of This Is Not A Test

May 19, 2019
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An Open and Extended Response (On Testing Season)

April 30, 2019
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Let Us March On ‘Til Victory Is Won

April 26, 2019
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Where We Belong

April 14, 2019
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Teaching Intolerance

March 31, 2019
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What You’re Not Gonna Do [Vox]

March 24, 2019
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Take All The Space You Need (For Now)

March 10, 2019
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For New York City To Love Us Back [Teaching and Living Here]

February 19, 2019
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Writing as Threat

February 12, 2019
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You Don’t Have To Lie (Hire More Black Teachers, Maybe)

February 10, 2019