Returning to the Root: Reflection and Collective Learning
“We must ask ourselves, ‘What is it that we are trying to do, and are we doing it as effectively as we can?’ For the answers to these questions are […]
Tag Archives: Challenging Curriculum
Honoring Student Knowledge: The Importance of a Questioning Curriculum
“Everything I teach my students are things they already know. I just teach them that they already know them.” – Frantz Jordan-Jerome I was co-leading a lesson with my mentor […]
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 […]
Envisioning Justice: Remembering Our Own Power
“Caminante, no hay puentes. Se hace puentes al andar.” – Gloria Anzaldúa As was mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been looking into graduate programs lately, and have been having a […]
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 […]
Radical Desires: Education as Queer Work
Since starting this blog, a few people have asked me why I decided to give a queer title and framework to a blog where so many of the discussions and […]
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 […]
Process Over Product: The Problem with ‘Achievement’
Yesterday, my mentor teacher broke the class up into four groups about five students each and sat them in different parts of the room, with the instruction that they were […]
Getting Concrete: Making Radical Politics Real
The other day, during the last block of time before we broke for lunch, the teacher in whose classroom I am currently shadowing asked his students to describe in their […]
Burning Out: Demanding a Sustainable Teaching Model
A close friend of mine recently quit her job with NYC Teaching Fellows after sticking with the program for three full years. Teaching Fellows, which is a national organization, places […]
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