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Wielding Peer Pressure to Build a More Wholesome Community

18 May 2023 | Filed under: Teaching

Spoken to an educator recently? Opened a newspaper? Then, no doubt you’ve heard about the startling increase in remarkably cruel, insensitive & flat-out rude behavior kids are showing on a regular basis. Group-think is short-circuiting basic decency with alarming regularity. At my middle school in recent months, as in schools …

What do we need from schools in September?

27 July 2020 | Filed under: Equity, Teaching

A few weeks ago, I read this Medium post by Dr. Shayla R. Griffin, which I posted my initial reflections on, and which has had an enormous impact on my thinking over the intervening weeks. My takeaway:  There is a population that wants schools to open: parents working from home need space; …

#Girlboss and Systemic Change: What I’m Listening To

24 July 2020 | Filed under: Leadership, What I'm Reading

Listening today to an episode of The Takeaway from a few weeks ago (7/6/2020), and I was struck by the final segment, in which Tanzina Vega interviews Amanda Mull about her research into the #GirlBoss moment in American culture. Mull states as clearly—and frankly sympathetically—as I’ve ever heard it, why …

What I’m Reading: Some Students Should Go To School, Most Should Stay Home

22 July 2020 | Filed under: Leadership, What I'm Reading

Over the weekend, I read this Medium post by Dr. Shayla R. Griffin, “Some Students Should Go To School, Most Should Stay Home.” In it, Dr. Griffin highlights the crisis of the schooling decision facing all communities right now: remote learning has serious weaknesses, but in-person instruction presents significant risks …

What I’m Reading: “So You Want To Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo

22 July 2020 | Filed under: Equity, What I'm Reading

Within my school district, the George Floyd protests prompted a push for anti-racist education, which several faculty, staff, and administrators are trying to ensure doesn’t end up as the latest “thoughts & prayers” and leads to action and, with work, results. To build a common baseline-—and hopefully a coalition of …

Trevor Noah meets us “where we are”

10 June 2020 | Filed under: Citizenship, Equity

A friend on Facebook recently posted to ask, “What’s different this time?”, a sincere invitation to ponder what caused the video of an incident of police brutality in Minneapolis resulting in the murder of George Floyd to catch fire. Today, I watched the video Trevor Noah posted about a week …

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