Class Trips: That Real Education
March 15, 2016
The real education you get in college doesn’t come from classes, but everything outside of that. There is a quote out there somewhere that more
Category: Education
Parent-Teacher Interviews
February 15, 2016
Have you ever noticed how after a parent-teacher interview your students behave like it’s the first day of school? After that interview, students approach class
Testing Students: It’s Practice, Not Failure
January 26, 2016
The arena of education maintains a few diverse phenomena that only exist in the confines of the school. For instance, the ways classrooms are set
A Teacher’s New Year’s Resolution
January 2, 2016
2015 has come and gone in what seems like a few blinks of the eye. We are in another January, and even though the majority
5 Most Overused Symbols in Education
December 17, 2015
Education is a very conservative field by any measure. But there are a few things in education that maintain such high regard, when they really
Death to Textbooks
December 15, 2015
Schooling is on rather ironic grounds these days. In one sense, almost all new initiatives assert inquiry-based teaching modes that lean more on alternative forms of
Being a Teacher is Hard These Days
December 11, 2015
I want to talk to my students how I talk to my nieces and nephews. I want to teach my students the way I’ve taught
Why EdCamp is Vital
December 3, 2015
This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to be a part of something important in my city. I was an organizer for the annual EdCamp
A Note on Teacher Certification…
November 30, 2015
At my school, I organize a “Young Men’s Club” for students that are from marginalized backgrounds with the hope that our meetings, once a week,
Sometimes School Makes People Stupid
November 21, 2015
Jackson Pollock x My Classroom Have you ever looked at a Jackson Pollack painting? His work has sold for upwards of $140 million. He is
Matthew R. Morris
Educator, Speaker, Writer
Matthew R. Morris is a writer, speaker, and elementary educator in Toronto. He has an M.A. in Social Justice Education from OISE at the University of Toronto and is the author of the forthcoming book, Black Boys Like Me.
Matthew R. Morris
Twitter Feed
Categories