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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=100&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=100&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=100&ssl=1)
A Story About The High Expectations Conversation [The Art of the Professional Insult]
April 11, 2017
In Defense Of Our Dreams
April 2, 2017
Kalief Browder and the School-To-Prison Pipeline
March 26, 2017
If You Teach And No One Learns, Did You Really Teach?
March 19, 2017
Text From My Speech at #March4EducationNY
March 6, 2017
Why I Will March (Stand For Something)
February 27, 2017
W.E.B. DuBois and Dual Consciousness For Teachers of Color
February 21, 2017
With An Upright Zeal (On Teaching With This Fire)
February 5, 2017
Don’t Blame The Kids (On The Women’s March and Getting “Woke”)
January 22, 2017![Featured image for “The Work Ahead [An Annenberg Institute Interview]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.16.14-PM.png?fit=1458%2C726&quality=100&ssl=1)
The Work Ahead [An Annenberg Institute Interview]
January 20, 2017![Featured image for “What Educators Can Do Now To Honor MLK Besides Post Quotes [On #MLKNow]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/riversidechurch.jpg?fit=2203%2C1652&quality=100&ssl=1)
What Educators Can Do Now To Honor MLK Besides Post Quotes [On #MLKNow]
January 17, 2017
My Child, Your Child, Everyone’s Child (Five Years An Actual Father)
January 11, 2017
How This Educator Handles Trolls (Bob and Weave Em)
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Top Posts of 2016, According To You [Year In Review]
December 29, 2016![Featured image for “Why I Never Let A Statue Tell Me How Nice I Am [2016 In Review]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/phifedawg2.jpg?fit=715%2C477&quality=100&ssl=1)
Why I Never Let A Statue Tell Me How Nice I Am [2016 In Review]
December 27, 2016![Featured image for “A Reaction To Mayor de Blasio’s Equity and Excellence Plan [Math for America]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/billdeblasiofallfunction.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1)
A Reaction To Mayor de Blasio’s Equity and Excellence Plan [Math for America]
December 22, 2016![Featured image for “Becoming National Board Certified (Third Time’s The Charm) [The Standard]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/nationalboardletter-e1482758146235.jpg?fit=1077%2C637&quality=100&ssl=1)
Becoming National Board Certified (Third Time’s The Charm) [The Standard]
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Let’s Unpresident Trump [The Progressive]
December 18, 2016
Politics Are Always At Play In Our Classrooms
November 20, 2016
The Trump Voters In Our Classrooms
November 6, 2016
Three Ways To Reclaim Your Joy As A Teacher
October 23, 2016
A Few Questions With Marylin Zuniga (An Interview)
October 16, 2016
A Quick Note About This 40 Under 40 List Thing
October 13, 2016![Featured image for “Let Students Pronounce Themselves (On Pronouns and Identity) [Guest Post]”](https://i0.wp.com/thejosevilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_3062-e1482758448433.jpg?fit=2560%2C1171&quality=100&ssl=1)
Let Students Pronounce Themselves (On Pronouns and Identity) [Guest Post]
October 9, 2016
Hope of a Black – Latino Educator (Evolution)
September 25, 2016
Fear of a Black Educator, Part 2
September 21, 2016
Fear Of A Black Educator, Part 1
September 20, 2016
The Little Light Of Mine (On EdCampBrooklyn and Movement Building)
September 18, 2016
Love and Hate, Sorta (It’s Only Been Two Days)
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