Part 1: Why geniuses are horrible at school I never quite understood the stories of geniuses who are horrible at school until I started …
Following the wrong leader
Type “schools kill” in your Google bar and the first ten things that populate the autocomplete suggestion bar revolve around the word “creativity”. Sir Ken …
Trust me, they all learning something…
One of my pet peeves in my role as a teacher comes from the nonchalant mouths of other teachers. More specifically, my most difficult times …
10 months with us
“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way.” – George Evans. The year I became an educator, a …
H&M and Education Equity
I first caught wind of the handsome black boy outfitted in a hoodie with the words, “coolest monkey in the jungle” on Monday morning as I …
Teaching and Learning While Black
Recently, I wrote a piece for ETFO Voice Magazine that was featured. It was featured because they, like me, thought it was an important message. It is …
When smart people say there’s no institutional racism
I started on YouTube watching some Lord Jamar interview and somehow, thirty minutes later, was watching a Piers Morgan Live episode where he was debating …
Check Your Privilege
I was teaching a short and easy lesson on science lab safety that naturally led into a small activity I wanted my students to complete …
Obligatory Obedience
I once witnessed a teacher moving a desk to the corner of her classroom as she was setting up the day before the new school …
Dropout v. Push-out
This could have also been titled, “Our Words Matter”, “The Details” or “Speak it into (Non)Existence”…or something rich like that… The statistics have …