The lifelong impact of a Black educator
When you’re a young Black student, meeting a Black male educator allows you to literally see success personified. It changes your outlook on what’s possible. You see someone who looks like you making a difference, and you can aspire to make a difference, too.
4 steps to creating a family “welcome committee”
We want new families to feel seen and accepted before their students’ first day
3 reminders for equity-focused leaders
During Hurricane Katrina, I was a new teacher. In 2020, I was a new principal. Here’s how these experiences shaped my approach to equity.
3 key leadership questions for Black History Month and beyond
With the humanity of our students at stake, we have to sit with some serious questions.
Planning for Black History Month? Here’s some inspiration.
Find resources to share with your teachers and ideas for schoolwide celebrations.
How our school retained educators of color
Here are 3 concrete practices that worked for us.
The single most important change we made to hire more educators of color
We have to commit to recruitment as part of our ongoing, year-round work.
How to Reject the “Achievement Gap” and Boost Our Belief in Every Student
We’ve been looking at the so-called “achievement gap” for decades and too often misreading it as a sign that some students innately do better, perform better or are just somehow better than others. Depending on your environment, that’s not something you might say out loud or take seriously as an idea. But it could still […]
7 ways principals can support LGBTQ+ teachers like me.
This was my first year of teaching, and even though it was a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants experience, it was a lot of fun. I’m excited to come back, largely because of the support I found in my administrators. As a non-binary person looking for my first teaching position, it was important to me to find a school […]