Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Saying goodbye to "Bahal's," a Black-owned corner store

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I'm not sure we fully appreciate all that corner stores mean to those of us who live or have lived in the hood. Even as teachers, if we...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

Building Comm101: co-constructing our syllabus

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For the past few years I've been on this kick of co-creating the course syllabus with my classes. With some general parameters, I solici...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

My students talked redlining and crime

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Their hearts ache. My heart aches. Collectively, we ache. Often. Last fall, my class and I were still trying to define ourselves as a class ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

UPDATE on: Motion to preclude evidence of racial discrimination in school funding

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Three weeks ago, I offered my non-lawyer, teacher opinion  on Pennsylvania House Speaker, Representative Bryan Cutler's motion to preclu...
Friday, July 9, 2021

School District of Philly "excited" about return to in-person learning in the fall

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It's nice that the School District of Philadelphia is "excited" about the full re-opening of schools. I get it. No doubt many ...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Motion to preclude evidence of racial discrimination? In school funding?

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[Originally written as a Guest Opinion for a local community newspaper two weeks ago] In 2014, the William Penn School District along with f...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

I Asked | Bill Cosby's vacated verdict/sentence

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I like hearing from the youth. Sometimes their perspectives offer a fresh, divergent, or just different take on issues. Whether it's our...