You're More Prepared Than You Think

December 10, 2024

To prepare for rising authoritarianism, we can commit to keeping each other safe.

A Resilience Reading List

November 18, 2024

Building Community with Love and Patience

Keep Loving, Keep Fighting

November 8, 2024

What a second Trump presidency means for activism, community, and the need for genuine participation.

How Do We Atone for Collective Failure?

October 7, 2024

A Yom Kippur reflection on complicity, silence, and the need for collective action

The Empire Will Endure

September 19, 2024

We have to be realistic: Kamala Harris will be an imperialist President. I'm still working to get her elected.

Organizing for School Transformation

September 3, 2024

Schools can combat burnout by building collective power through organizing for change.

The Demand is Still #Defund

August 12, 2024

Ten years ago I was reading about protests happening in Ferguson as my plane touched down in Oakland, California. Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black...

What Happens Next

July 8, 2024

A Plan for Resilience That Doesn’t Rely on Biden I can still remember what spring 2020 felt like, and how I realized once and for all who matters in the US...

The Limits of Storytelling

April 22, 2024

“We were slaves in Egypt, but now we’re free.” This is the central message of the Passover seder that we return to each year. The Passover story has endured...

Relationships Unlock Power

April 17, 2024

On Monday I facilitated a community building circle for a group of educators in Queens. At the end of a long school day, just days from Spring Break, there...

Schools Can't Go Back to Normal

March 26, 2024

COVID upended education, but in too many schools it looks like it's 2019 Photo by Taylor Flowe It's hard to believe it's been four years since COVID-19 shut...

How Can We Find the Truth?

March 5, 2024

This week Vice Media laid off hundreds of its employees. It's the latest incident in a very rough period for media. The combination of private equity...

Are We Safe Yet?

February 7, 2024

It's been four months since Hamas's attack on October 7th. Shortly after, Israel launched its devastating offensive on the people of Gaza. It was a time of...

From Comfort to Action

January 26, 2024

How Can We Mobilize Men for Social Justice? Almost everyone can think of a time when they were at a dinner party and the meal came to an end. It was time to...

What Could We Learn From Jordan Neely's Life?

January 10, 2024

New York Mag Revisits, But Doesn't Reimagine Jordan Neely's Story The cover story of the most recent New York magazine told readers about Jordan Neely's...

The Jewish month for anger

December 29, 2023

Embracing the value of an uncomfortable feeling

Can I look away?

December 11, 2023

Escaping apathy, and taking action beyond social media

The War Over Words

November 21, 2023

Jewish discomfort must not silence demands for justice

Whiteness Won't Save Us

November 9, 2023

We'll only be safe when all of us are safe

Looking for Home as a Jew in the Left

October 30, 2023

We must continue to build movements for justice that affirm everyone's humanity

Every Life is Sacred

October 15, 2023

We cannot accept genocide carried out in the Jewish people's name

Practicing a Political Growth Mindset

September 28, 2023

External validation won't work for long-term organizing

Bipartisan Authoritarians

September 13, 2023

The Democratic Party has some troubling antidemocratic tendencies

The Freedom to Learn

August 30, 2023

This school year it's time to defeat the right-wing attacks on public schools

Why I'm listening to Oliver Anthony

August 15, 2023

White liberal and leftists shouldn't ignore "Rich Men North of Richmond"

Solidarity Saves Lives

July 28, 2023

What we can learn from #hotstrikesummer

Preparing Students for an Uncertain Future

June 29, 2023

Relationships, creativity, and inquiry matter more than ever

Nothing is inevitable

May 8, 2023

The only thing that's certain is that we have to fight for the world we want

Moral outrage can defeat moral panics

April 24, 2023

We should feel angry when we're told to fear our neighbors

Leaving for the unknown

April 5, 2023

The story of Passover is one of radical imagination and hope

Why are boys in trouble?

March 28, 2023

We cannot help boys without undoing patriarchy

Remembrance is resistance

March 9, 2023

Why we must make time to remember March 2020

Drained Pool Politics and Public Schools

February 27, 2023

The Fight to Integrate Central High Still Echoes 65 Years Later

Can we make masking sound fun?

February 16, 2023

We need a case for collective action rooted in pleasure and joy

My hope for tonight's State of the Union

February 7, 2023

The President needs to speak out against fascist book bans

How many SUVs does a precinct need?

February 2, 2023

Our addiction to police and prisons harms schools materially and culturally

The youth don't want to save us

January 19, 2023

"Just because you're 50 does not mean you've aged out of being a decent citizen."

We don't have to reinvent everything

January 5, 2023

One of the more surprising and fun writing opportunities I had last year was writing for the podcast History Daily. I’ve learned a lot about writing and...

What portals can we step through in 2023?

December 22, 2022

Revisiting hope in preparation for the new year

The School Board Wars Are Just Beginning

December 7, 2022

What lessons can we learn for future elections?

What educators can see

November 8, 2022

It's time to hear the urgency coming from educators on the ground

Who counts as a parent?

October 24, 2022

This week, Mother Jones published a piece called “The Right-Wing Attack on Public Education Began in One Elite Illinois High School.” It tells the story of a...

I didn't mean to ghost you 😬

October 10, 2022

A brief check-in

Public education is in danger

August 13, 2022

A worrying threat is emerging. The right-wing movement to dismantle public education is escalating. And I’m increasingly concerned that many allies of public...

"Grief is subversive"

June 26, 2022

I can't keep moving from one crisis to the next numbly

It's June!

June 8, 2022

"And meanwhile the world goes on"

The important thing about fourth graders

May 26, 2022

I wrote this post to process my feelings of rage and grief about the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Please take care of yourself by deciding if and when you’d...

"Imagine a world worth fighting for"

May 11, 2022

On Saturday morning, I volunteered at Planned Parenthood as an escort. It was cold and rainy, but 40 or 50 evangelical protestors came out to pray and harass...

Can U.S. Jews overcome our shame and talk about apartheid?

April 22, 2022

Last Friday, the first night of Passover, the woman across the table asked my friend a question. "You said that you admire AOC. You know that she called...

There's no I in freedom

April 7, 2022

by Grae Rosa I just finished reading Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – And the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari. The book...