Your blog category
From college classrooms to kindergarten rugs, my education journey reveals how America’s failure to teach children to read is not […]
It is one of the quietest decisions a principal can make—and one of the loudest in its consequences. A contract
In classrooms where learning is truly visible, assessment is not an endpoint—it is part of the learning itself. For decades,
Walk into a high-impact classroom, and you can feel it immediately. Students aren’t just answering questions—they are thinking out loud.
In the classrooms where students do the thinking—not just the answering—achievement rises. It transforms. There’s a moment every teacher recognizes,
Let me take you into a classroom, my first year teaching in an urban public school. Fourth grade. Students full
“The U.S. education landscape has long been a source of unequal treatment, access, and outcomes based on a student’s race and
The reading wars never ended—they just went quiet long enough for a generation of children to fall behind. After decades
When you hear that Black children are struggling to read, what explanation comes to mind? A lack of effort?
Comments about the reading achievement gap between underserved black and brown students and their peers have surfaced. Data-driven research