Lesson Plan – En la lucha: Learning as Struggle
This is a multilingual lesson plan for a class towards the beginning of a new year or semester. By introducing the three Spanish terms, ‘la gente,’ ‘el pueblo,’ and ‘la […]
Category Archives: Liberalism
No [Marginalized] History Month: Ethnic Studies All the Time!
Black History Month was never something which resonated with me as a student. As a young Black person, it was impossible for me to imagine that there could ever be […]
What Tutoring Kindergarteners Has Taught Me About Public Schooling
I’ve often heard it said–both inside and outside of education circles–that all the things we need to know, all the guidelines we ought to live our lives by, were learned […]
Are Teachers Activists?
My father was a first generation college student. Raised in rural Massachusetts on public assistance, he comes from a large group of siblings, and one of the only Black families […]
Who Is the ‘We’: An Education for Us
This past week at my school saw much of the pageantry and lead-up which precedes the Thanksgiving recesses in so many U.S. learning communities. The hallways were filled with handprint […]
Revising Traditions: Some Thoughts On Capacity
“…And they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood, and never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” – Nikki Giovanni As a kid, I attended a subsidized after […]
NYC’s Homeless: The Original Occupiers of Wall Street
I made a brief visit a few weekends ago to Zuccotti Park, the original site of the Occupy Wall Street camp outs, assemblies and demonstrations which are still taking place […]
No Justice, No Peace: Challenging ‘Diversity’ and Embracing Conflict
A teaching program of which I was recently a part held a ‘Diversity Day’ early on in the program’s duration. The goal of the day was to give the community […]
Multilingual Education as a Radical Venture
Working in the elementary school at which I am currently stationed has caused me to think a great deal about the politics of language in education. In the sixth grade […]
What’s Wrong with Being Militant?
The African American Studies program in which I majored at my university was founded–like countless other Black, Brown and Ethnic Studies Departments–as the result of student, staff and faculty organizing. […]
Radical Faggot 