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Bad Principals, Too

November 4, 2014
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Week 8: Bleeding Openly [Am I A Bad Teacher?]

November 2, 2014
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Bad Teachers Everywhere, All The Time, Even You

October 28, 2014
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Bad Teachers [Running Out Of Time]

October 26, 2014
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When Teachers and Students Fight

October 21, 2014
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Writing Yourself Right Out Of The Burning House

October 19, 2014
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My History As An Elective

October 13, 2014
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Not Good Or Bad, But Kids Nonetheless

October 9, 2014
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A Progressive Education Agenda, Whatever That Means

October 6, 2014
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Week 4: All The Students [World Teachers Day]

October 5, 2014
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What You Gonna Do When The Common Core Runs Wild On You?

October 2, 2014
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On Writing Like A Monster

September 30, 2014
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Derek Jeter

September 28, 2014
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A Love Supreme

September 23, 2014
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Week 2: The Best Laid Lesson Plans

September 21, 2014
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Join The EduColor Movement, Part 1 of Many

September 16, 2014
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Week 1: I Belong Here (On Starting Exponents)

September 14, 2014
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Listen To The Controversial Panel Featuring Dana Goldstein, Motoko Rich, and Me Right Here

September 12, 2014
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My Contribution To #FergusonSyllabus [Edutopia]

September 10, 2014
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Pedagogy First (A Note on Elizabeth Green’s Building A Better Teacher)

September 9, 2014
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Not All My Teacherfolk Are My Kinfolk

September 7, 2014
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On Honest and Civil Conversation (Simmer Down Now)

September 3, 2014
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Changing The Narrative, Right From My Classroom

September 1, 2014
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Meeting My Once and Future Classroom

August 27, 2014
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Am I Wrong For Thinking We Could Be Something For Real?

August 21, 2014
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Our School and How I Just Want To Hear What Happened

August 20, 2014
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On Due Process, Or What You Call Tenure

August 18, 2014
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Adults, Please Get Out The Way [How Students Do It]

August 14, 2014
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When Can We Talk About Race? (Michael + Trayvon + Renisha + …)

August 12, 2014
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Who Taught Educators To Hate Themselves? (About Lists and Authenticity)

August 11, 2014
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Another Reason I Don’t Like FOIL In Math

August 7, 2014
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Eduflack’s Review of This Is Not A Test, For Argument’s Sake

August 6, 2014
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Personalization Depends On The Person

August 4, 2014
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Here It Is, A Profession Transformed

July 29, 2014
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Reframing Expertise in Education (The Habitual Line-Stepper)

July 27, 2014
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Teachers of Color Caught In The Windmill (On Real Equity)

July 14, 2014
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Teacher Quality And The Decline In Teachers of Color

July 9, 2014

Digital Tools As The Gateway Drug To Real Pedagogy?

July 3, 2014

You Can’t Educate With Us (On Tone-Policing When Silent)

June 24, 2014

Father’s Day As A Healing Day

June 15, 2014
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Just My Imagination Running Away With Me (A Post-CCSS World)

June 8, 2014
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What Complicity Looks Like (Why I Support #YesAllWomen)

June 5, 2014
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Michelle Obama and Why Teachers Need To Embrace Critique

June 3, 2014

How The Book Is Going So Far

June 1, 2014
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Hope Makes Teaching More Than A Job

May 25, 2014
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Teaching and Leading While Black (On My Visit To The White House)

May 13, 2014
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Retroactively Paying It Forward (On The City – UFT Contract)

May 1, 2014
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Without Some Affirmative Action, Bros Won’t Look At You

April 23, 2014
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Racism Without Racists: The School Re-segregation Edition

April 17, 2014

I Need You Here (Global Math Presentation)

April 14, 2014