Gingerbread Houses and Cookie Cutter Approaches to Teaching
August 5, 2016
Two days before Christmas break this past school year, I unloaded the trunk of my car and hauled in thirty gingerbread house kits. The boxes
Author: Matthew R. Morris
3 Steps to Enjoying Your Summer Break
July 28, 2016
If you work in a school board where the school calendar runs from September until June, you are probably sitting on a lawn chair right
The Juxtaposition of Summer Break
July 26, 2016
Planning Your Day in the Sun The summer break is probably the cruelest juxtaposition a teacher faces in her career. I mean, it is
Being a Young Black Male Teacher
July 21, 2016
I’ve skirted from this topic for the longest time. I guess my preoccupation with fitting in to the career was part of my hesitation. Honestly,
Creating a Classroom
July 18, 2016
A few years ago, I took an AQ (additional qualifications) course and one of the first assignments was creating a visual representation of my ideal
Teaching to the Extremes
July 14, 2016
Or, Differentiated Instruction… What do you do when you teach a fifth grade class that consists of thirty students and amongst those thirty students,
Alton Sterling and Facts
July 7, 2016
Yesterday, my (black) friend took his 4-month-old baby to his (black) wife’s work yesterday. She works at a nursing home. One (white) senior, upon seeing
A letter to next year’s teacher
July 4, 2016
Having students write a letter to next year’s teacher is an easy end-of-year activity that is done often at the elementary level. Students jot down
The Politics of Rap Lyrics – Part III
June 27, 2016
Kendrick Lamar’s “Complexion” – PART III Kendrick rips into the second verse with lines like, “I got the world’s attention…so I’mma (sic) say somethin’
On Complexion and Kendrick Lamar – Part II
June 20, 2016
Lamar articulately rhapsodizes about naivety in how society has constructed a hierarchy of violence based on the most uncontrollable form of one’s being – one’s
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.
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