3 Things You Need To Know About Teaching Black Boys
October 2, 2019
I’m neither an expert on the subject of teaching black boys nor am I a child psychologist that specializes in the mindset of the adolescent
Author: Matthew R. Morris
Detentions
September 25, 2019
I can’t remember ever giving a student a detention. And I know for sure that I’ve never given detention to an entire class. When I
I Think My Neighbors Think I’m Selling Dope
August 20, 2019
Millionaire rapper, J. Cole, made a song titled Neighbors “inspired” by a SWAT raid on his house after his rich white neighbors called the police
Teaching During Ramadan
May 23, 2019
In the last few years of my life I’ve found it increasingly difficult to burn off that late night pizza slice or the friday burger
Bad English
March 26, 2019
I never liked English class. Actually, I hated it. The reasons were purely due to the pedantic methods that teachers used in my elementary and
Cell Phone Ban in Classrooms
March 19, 2019
So, the government of Ontario has decided on a cell phone ban in classrooms for the upcoming school year. I am going to try to
No More Pencils
February 27, 2019
At the beginning of each year, I buy a standard box of no. 2 pencils. The box comes with 500. About midway through the school
My Typa Nigga
February 17, 2019
Between the ages of twelve to nineteen I idolized the same people you did. I looked up to people that were, subconsciously I guess, specific
Does Black History Month still hold meaning in 2019
February 17, 2019
I know. The title seems ignorant and at the least, redundant. I know, on the surface, it seems asinine to question the importance of Black
Speaking on and about black male students
January 9, 2019
Speaking on and about black male students continues to be a fundamental concern of mine. That is because even words like concern carry connotations that
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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