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 […]
Tag Archives: Challenging Curriculum
Why College Is Not the Goal of a Progressive Education
As an oppressed student, it was ingrained in me from early on in my educational career that attending college was not only the key to justice, but a revolutionary act. […]
Anarchy and Education: Structuring an Insurgent Learning Community
I held lots of romantic ideas about what a classroom community could and should look like before I actually started working with kids. I imagined a learning space organized, run […]
Getting Off Task: The Need for Flexibility and Free Time in the Classroom
“Being flexible with your curriculum is not about sending the message to students that the curriculum is unimportant. It is about sending the message that it is important in a […]
Being a Student Ally: Teachers as Necessary Voices of Protest
A few months ago I was teaching a somewhat uninspiring writing curriculum to a group of sixth graders as part of teacher training program. As young educators, participants in the […]
Precious Knowledge: Knowing Your History Is a Radical Act
The remarkable film Precious Knowledge recounts the stories of the students and teachers who comprise the Raza Studies Program, a series of courses which focus on Mexican and Chicano history, […]
Why ‘Bad’ Kids Make Better Students
Having become more interested in pursuing education as a career while I was in college, I applied to work for an urban summer teaching initiative. This particular program recruited high […]
How Did We Learn to Hate the Hood?
A friend of mine and I recently co-led a poetry workshop with a group of 7th, 8th and 9th graders, all of whom qualified for the workshop because of coming […]
Coming Out in the Classroom
Last semester I student-taught in a third grade classroom at a small, public elementary school near my university in CT. Though the reinforcement of racial redistricting codes had recently shaken […]
Radical Faggot 