Foreign Language
August 9, 2023
(A part II to Immigrant Words) I do feel more comfortable describing my father as firstly an immigrant and then a Jamaican and then a Black
Author: Matthew R. Morris
Immigrant Words
August 1, 2023
What does it mean to be a Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother raised on Indigenous land? I’ve asked myself
In Between The Bell
May 31, 2023
Students started filling the hallways after the afternoon bell rang. The first one. Shari, Felicia, and Nasir were all singing from the literal tip of
Growing Age Gap
January 24, 2023
One of the more pressing questions I’ve asked myself over the last eighteen months is whether or not the student has fundamentally and irreversibly changed,
I Blame Social Media For All
November 22, 2022
I know I’m not the only one who can no longer blame the pandemic for what education looks like today. I’ll submit to the notion
Media Literacy: I’m Still Stuck on Selfies
October 13, 2022
“They could care less about the Z pattern in paper ads. Now they all wanted to know if their teacher had a Facebook. Maybe, I
Who Am I?
September 13, 2022
I was walking home after school one day in grade twelve and felt like I was doing everything wrong. Another football season without a championship
God Spare
August 24, 2022
My pops used to always say, “If God spare our lives” at the end of any late night conversation we shared where one of us
Those Last Three Years
August 18, 2022
Teaching through a pandemic makes no one a better educator. It may have made some more resourceful, more attuned to the social and emotional needs
Dear Summer
July 28, 2022
Dear Summer, I don’t know if you miss me. For we been together like Nike Airs and fresh tees. The immeasurable seasons we’ve lived
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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