We Need to Unify
If there is one thing that still resonates from September 11, it is the fear that we all felt, and the hope that we could pull together to fight this fear. The unity we all felt was unbelievable. We had … Continued
A Workingman’s Holiday Turns into Labor Day
How did this Labor Day get started? No one person is responsible but several events lead up to President Grover Cleveland’s signing a law in 1894 to memorialize this workingman’s day. The conditions in schools that help our teachers work … Continued
Promote Collaborative Teacher Training
In order to disrupt the inequitable process of education that, for example, produces only a third of our students who read on grade level by third grade, we need ideas that improve teacher training. Currently teachers are trained at university … Continued
Evidence is Critical to Survival
We are continuing our fight against the COVID 19 virus, but evidence from science continues to be questioned, when on the contrary, the real problem is not the science, but the acceptance of the science by people in our country … Continued
Schools Are Losing Students
As the pandemic took hold, more than 1 million children did not enroll in local schools. Many of them were the most vulnerable: 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods. New York Times, August 7, 2021 The Pandemic’s toll is vast. The closing … Continued
Who Wants to Start a School?
Whenever some teacher approaches me to ask about starting a school, I always ask them three questions: Who Wants to Start A School? Most educators have had the thought about starting a school. This may have started as a frustration … Continued
Change the Way Teachers Work
Problems of Practice We need to change the way teachers work in the United States. Right now we have a model for their work that does not radically improve student learning. A simple analysis tells us that we have to … Continued
US Department of Education’s Focus on Teachers as Leaders
The US Department of Education, in partnership with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and ASCD, is developing public awareness of the importance of teachers as leaders through their Teach To Lead program. Teacher Leaders For many years, teachers … Continued
Creative Access and Support For Every Child
If we are to provide an equitable education to every child, we need to disrupt current systems of education in order to restructure for collective success. Especially as we come out of the Pandemic, we must call for a group … Continued
Assimilation Through Education
The United States enacted laws to educate Indians in boarding schools in 1819. This unfortunate use of education has developed into an international embarrassment as both Canada and the US used these boarding schools to wipe out tribal identity. Starting … Continued