Recently, PBS Newshour asked for my thoughts on Black History Month. After noticing that even some people of color railed against the idea of such

“This race discussion doesn’t apply to me.” Whenever we say that racism isn’t just discrimination of one set of people towards another, but a systemic

First off, Governor Andrew Cuomo is never getting an invitation to my classroom nor would I want him anywhere near my students. The most likely

I barely know what week I’m in right now. We just finished the second marking period and we’re just starting to get into systems of

My people, I recently wrote an article for the upstart mag The Enemy, expounding on my thoughts about the relationships between teachers and the police,

My latest at Edutopia stems from a conversation I had with National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb and Maryland Teacher of the Year Jody

My fellow men of color in the education sphere, Recently, there’s been lots of conversation around training and retaining more men of color to become

Back when I matriculated at Syracuse University, the Schine Student Center had a computer lab with a large whiteboard in the back of the basement

Angela Davis, legendary abolitionist / prison industrial activist / Black Panther icon recently gave an interview that made me snap my fingers a few times.

After the bell sounded today, as with every day, I like to sit at my desk for 10-20 minutes to decompress. I exhale a few

What an epic year! Remember when Audrey Watters and I facilitated a one-of-a-kind conversation at EduCon with teachers, edu-techers, parents, and an assortment of individuals

I hadn’t seen it live, but the pictures popped up on my social media screens. One set of photos has officers’ caps pointed directly at

On Saturday morning, I was flipping channels, trying to take my mind off last week when I saw the Shrek series come on. I’d already

I wanted to write this piece as a bit of a year in review, but, in light of so many recent events, I prefer to

In today’s news, a prank goes horribly wrong when a group of students replaced themselves with mannequins only to notice the teacher kept teaching. “It

It was the kids who told me that Daniel Pantaleo, Eric Garner’s choker, wasn’t indicted. Outside at around 2:40pm, the kids approached me from the

“He deserves to have been shot.” When I logged into Facebook for the umpteenth time last week, I should have expected to read this. At

This morning, I woke up in a haze. After attending the Teachers for Social Justice curriculum fair in Chicago this weekend, I felt empowered to

Audrey Watters: “There’s that very famous New Yorker cartoon: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The cartoon was first published in 1993 —

[Today’s special guest is Anthony Mullen, 2009 Teacher of the Year and awesome writer. Feel free to tell us what you think about his post