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Dear Administrators, Stop Stifling My Creativity-Give Me More Restrictions
As an English literature major in college, I had the privilege of meeting and working with some phenomenal poets. Within my writing workshops, these authors assigned very specific prompts with all sorts of restrictions. I remember being tasked with writing a...
If Not You, Who?
This blog is a veteran teacher’s reflections on the perspectives and practices that empower stakeholders to positively impact our learning communities. Post 1: Want to Make an Impact? Start with Love. As a third generation educator, I grew up on stories of...
Prepare for Anti-Racist Action
A Call to Action: Get Involved in Community Anti-Racist Work
A student from a High School in the American Midwest was recently disciplined for altering a picture to make it appear that two students had KKK hoods on in the school gymnasium…
Ways We Hear
The same story that has the power to promote healing, if misunderstood, can cause much harm. Therefore, it is essential that we check our understanding with the speaker of the story before we act based on our own interpretations. This is especially true in...
What is empowering education?
When we think of the word empower, at first it seems like a rather straight-forward concept. Isn’t empowerment giving a person or a group of people control that they didn’t have before? Isn’t empowering….