The Third Rule of Teacher Privacy: Social Media
April 24, 2015
A Social Media DIS-Connect As a young teacher, there is nothing that you want to leave up to chance when it comes to your private
Author: Matthew R. Morris
Two rules for teacher privacy that teachers should follow
April 22, 2015
Keeping Your Life Private After celebrities, the “young new teacher” may be the second highest occupation for eliciting an unquenchable desire to uncover a backstory
Black Boy, Interrupted II
April 21, 2015
Stuck in the Machine of Education, Part II Black boys, like myself, try for years to interrupt the arresting box of urban Black identity in clever and chameleon ways.
Why These Children Cannot Write Anymore
April 17, 2015
The Reason Why Our entire education is based on printed text and writing, yet more and more kids are leaving elementary school without the ability
Classroom Hip-Hop
April 14, 2015
On Hip-Hop Pedagogy I feel that all the hip-hop albums I have ever listened to, from Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle to Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly have
Teachers Need Spring Break Too
April 10, 2015
Gimme’ A Break We have cruised through March and now we can finally see the finish line. Although there is much left to do with
Black Boy, Interrupted
April 6, 2015
Stuck in the Machine of Education, Part I If the Black boy was striving for acceptance amongst his peers as validation for his Blackness,
Barack’s Blackness
March 30, 2015
The Detriments of Debating Over Blackness I was on a mini-vacation visiting some old friends who had recently moved to Montreal. After a meal one
When Teachers Grade Work…
March 25, 2015
Grading Time The age-old pedagogical questions when teachers grade work always seems to eek its way on to the table of progressive practice year after
Some Advice on Teacher “Advice”
March 19, 2015
Advice for New Teachers As a new teacher, you will get all sorts of “advice” from teachers as to how to do your job. Mentorship
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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