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Has the pandemic "portal" closed?
March 24, 2022
@kimdinhart I am an extrovert, perhaps to a fault. But starting in the middle of March 2020 I spent about six weeks completely alone. It came at a time in my...
What I remember about March 2020
March 14, 2022
The light coming into my classroom windows is bright. We haven’t yet left winter behind though. The old radiators are still hissing away and making the...
What do police do?
February 21, 2022
Three stories from NYC about "crime" and "criminals"
What We Can Learn from Losing
February 11, 2022
New York magazine dedicated their recent issue to the ten year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. The...
The Holocaust was about race AND...
February 2, 2022
What we're getting wrong about what Whoopi got wrong
Ron DeSantis and White Fragility Pedagogy
January 27, 2022
Educators Know Discomfort is a Key Part of Learning
Teaching Hope as a Discipline
January 20, 2022
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Imagining Intuitive Policymaking
January 13, 2022
What could our communities look like if we listened more carefully to our bodies?
Welcome
January 10, 2022
"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" --Pres. George W. Bush, Jan. 11, 2000
The Schools Teachers Deserve
September 27, 2021
I became a teacher as neoliberal school reform was peaking.Continue reading on Age of Awareness »
My NOT First Day of School
September 13, 2021
Today is my first Not First Day of School in ten years. It’s 9:24 am on the first day of school, and I am not there. I can clearly picture…Continue reading...
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