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MLK’s Work Precedes Us And, With Resilience, Lives After [Medium]
January 22, 2019
On Creativity and The Stories Our Schools Tell Themselves
January 11, 2019![Featured image for “Keep That Same Energy, Tho [2018 and Beyond]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7351.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&quality=80&ssl=1)
Keep That Same Energy, Tho [2018 and Beyond]
December 30, 2018![Featured image for “A Book That Tells Teachers How To Talk About Race. No, Really. [Not Light But Fire]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/matthewkay.jpg?fit=943%2C556&quality=80&ssl=1)
A Book That Tells Teachers How To Talk About Race. No, Really. [Not Light But Fire]
December 24, 2018
Just Take It Slow, We Got So Far To Go
December 19, 2018
Learning and Earning In This Era of Education Justice
December 9, 2018
Actually, Yes, I’m About To Sing Hamilton At This Event
December 6, 2018
You Don’t Have To Like It (Students Watch and Talk About Us, Anyways)
December 3, 2018![Featured image for “I Put In Work And It’s All For The Kids [An NCTE Reflection]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dmxbpp.jpg?fit=779%2C520&quality=80&ssl=1)
I Put In Work And It’s All For The Kids [An NCTE Reflection]
November 18, 2018![Featured image for “There’s A War Going On Inside We Ain’t Safe From [A Conversation with Lorena Germán]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/revolucion-1965-isabel-la-catolica-luperon01-1.jpg?fit=748%2C488&quality=80&ssl=1)
There’s A War Going On Inside We Ain’t Safe From [A Conversation with Lorena Germán]
November 13, 2018
A Reminder About Teaching Students Math in NYC (And Beyond)
October 25, 2018
Every Morning Is An Affirmation
October 9, 2018
Bring Me A Higher Love
September 19, 2018
A Measure of This Teacher
September 11, 2018![Featured image for “Let Me See ‘Em Up High, This Is Not A Test [Part Two of Two]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/carters-new-album-everything-is-love.jpg?fit=2560%2C1334&quality=80&ssl=1)
Let Me See ‘Em Up High, This Is Not A Test [Part Two of Two]
August 27, 2018![Featured image for “Have You Ever Seen A Class Goin’ Apesh**? [Part One of Two]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/apeshit.gif?fit=444%2C250&ssl=1)
Have You Ever Seen A Class Goin’ Apesh**? [Part One of Two]
August 21, 2018
And All Of A Sudden, I’m So Good At Math
August 12, 2018![Featured image for “An Informal, Vetted, Amplified Set of Issues People of Color at Your Conferences Already Know [Medium]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/well.gif?fit=385%2C232&ssl=1)
An Informal, Vetted, Amplified Set of Issues People of Color at Your Conferences Already Know [Medium]
August 2, 2018![Featured image for “My Students Are Already Twice As Good [Medium]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_5982-e1530739045725.jpg?fit=2054%2C1079&quality=80&ssl=1)
My Students Are Already Twice As Good [Medium]
July 4, 2018![Featured image for “The Urgency of Juneteenth for Educators [Interview with Dr. James Forbes]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Rev_James_A_Forbes_speaking_2006.png?fit=813%2C541&quality=80&ssl=1)
The Urgency of Juneteenth for Educators [Interview with Dr. James Forbes]
June 14, 2018
A Letter From An Inner City Classroom (and This Teacher Is Your Brother)
May 20, 2018
The Work (A Poem)
April 29, 2018
Of Dreams and Nightmares (Free Thoughts on AERA and The Work)
April 22, 2018
Wakanda Schools and Why We’re Not Ready For A Shared Prosperity
April 10, 2018![Featured image for “Teacher Leadership As A Flawed Endeavor [Medium]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/meUSDOE.jpg?fit=4930%2C3117&quality=80&ssl=1)
Teacher Leadership As A Flawed Endeavor [Medium]
April 4, 2018
Thank You For Your Service, Still
March 21, 2018
I Keep Fallin’, But Never Fallin’ Six Feet Deep (The World Is Ours)
February 4, 2018![Featured image for “Of Mutual Cares [An EduCon 2018 Reflection]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-29-at-5.37.05-PM.png?fit=1752%2C1048&quality=80&ssl=1)
Of Mutual Cares [An EduCon 2018 Reflection]
January 29, 2018![Featured image for “Six Years Gifted [One King for Three Kings]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_4673.jpg?fit=2560%2C1923&quality=80&ssl=1)
Six Years Gifted [One King for Three Kings]
January 6, 2018![Featured image for “Labors and Dangers [2017 At Last]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG_4102.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&quality=80&ssl=1)
Labors and Dangers [2017 At Last]
December 28, 2017
On ELA, Math, and School, Because We Gotta Talk School
November 12, 2017
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Peculiar, Particular, Educational Intellectual
October 3, 2017
Skipping The Classes I Don’t Need
September 22, 2017Two Days Down, Forever To Go
September 10, 2017
Some Of Us Gotta Fight For Ours
September 4, 2017
Rebecca Solnit and How Pockets of Hope Have Saved America
August 15, 2017
And That’s When I Got A Phone Call From Secretary DeVos
July 28, 2017The Relationship Between Humility and Teacher Leadership [Medium]
July 25, 2017
A Note About Identity and The Light That Guides Us
July 11, 2017
On Global Teacher Prize Winner Maggie MacDonnell and What Humility Looks Like
July 3, 2017![Featured image for “What Philando Castile Taught Me About Fatherhood [Medium]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/28068812042_d1644f1b4a_h.jpg?fit=1600%2C1066&quality=80&ssl=1)
What Philando Castile Taught Me About Fatherhood [Medium]
June 20, 2017
Meet Me Inside, Meet Me Inside
June 12, 2017![Featured image for “I Only Do This Because You’re Doing Well [Stop Asking Me About Your Grades]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/yodaL.gif?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1)
I Only Do This Because You’re Doing Well [Stop Asking Me About Your Grades]
June 4, 2017![Featured image for “Superpower [A Tough Love]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/superpower-video-clip.png?fit=1044%2C553&quality=80&ssl=1)
Superpower [A Tough Love]
May 29, 2017
A Mathematical Five-Minute Tribute to Hamilton the Musical
May 23, 2017
Vivid Dreams and Hard Work
May 21, 2017
The Trump In All Of Us
May 7, 2017
Why Are You Looking For The Living Among The Dead?
April 16, 2017![Featured image for “A Story About The High Expectations Conversation [The Art of the Professional Insult]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_9xr2bt.png?fit=1440%2C971&quality=80&ssl=1)