Saturday, October 31, 2020

Let Black words marinate | A note on student-teacher relationships

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I'm typing this late on a Friday night (into Saturday now) in October after a long week here in Philly. Monday morning I found out one o...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

IAsked | How's remote learning going so far?

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Bringing the voices of my classroom community to you is important. I define my classroom community as current and former students, parents, ...
Friday, October 16, 2020

That's how you know it's real; a note on student-teacher relationships

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This week was long. Full stop. Educators have those types of weeks every now and then. Every day, however, brings new possibilities for that...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Dear White Colleagues, check yourself!

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I'll make this short. Twice today and once late last week did I engage in conversations with Black colleagues from around the school dis...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

IAsked | Informal Survey of Parents on School Board Meetings

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Recently, the Philadelphia school board  voted 7-1 to begin the upcoming school year with 100% remote teaching and learning amidst this cur...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

IAsked: "How should teachers do this online teaching thing?"

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Now that we can see a little clearer regarding fall classes, here is some advice from a couple of my students who chose to respond to my ope...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

The Spirituality of it All

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This past weekend, Juneteenth weekend 2020, was a whole mood! Yes sir, yes ma'am! I was driving at some point this weekend and thought t...