Matthew's Thoughts

Growing Age Gap
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, or am I temporarily indifferent because I’ve become slightly burnt out. This thought has

Media Literacy: I’m Still Stuck on Selfies
“They could care less about the Z pattern in paper ads. Now they all wanted to know if their teacher



Those Last Three Years
Teaching through a pandemic makes no one a better educator. It may have made some more resourceful, more attuned to

Dear Summer
Dear Summer, I don’t know if you miss me. For we been together like Nike Airs and fresh tees.

Uvalde Is In Our Bones
I want to let you know something about me. Writing has become my own therapy. I’ve googled and even went
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Matthew R. Morris
Educator, Speaker, Writer
Matthew R. Morris
still real; still myself.
Read MoreDeveloping an authentic black teacher identity is one part political and one part needed to maintain sanity.
Read More@mrshestick @scottwestwell Is that what those things are?!? 🤯
Read MoreThe tension between consumption and performance needs to sit inside us. We need to know it's there. It needs to stir. When it's ready to come up maybe then we'll be ready to transcend identity altogether.
Read MoreThere is a tension that exists between consumption and performance. And how we give into both. And how we receive both.
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