(Note: This post has been in draft for a few weeks now. I’ve felt more urgency to finish in the last couple of days–especially as I see The Help trending on Netflix. That is NOT the film we need right now. Or anytime.) The other day I saw a tweet from a teacher asking for…
On the blog: A Few Reflections for White Teachers Newly Committed to Equity, Justice, and Anti-racism In reading: Clap When You Land is a verse novel told in two voices. The tragic event happens right at the beginning: a plane from New York bound for the Dominican Republic crashes, and all the passengers die. The…
First, welcome. I am so glad you are here. There is a lot of work for us to do. I hope you can build your stamina and capacity for anti-racist work. In case you’re just discovering it this week, this is an emergency. And it has been an emergency for awhile. For lifetimes. We don’t…
I can’t recommend “We’ve Been Doing It Your Way Long Enough”: Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom highly enough. Written by two elementary teachers and a teacher-educator, this book is grounded in theory and full of invitations to self-reflect and begin or deepen the internal work necessary to become a teacher who is committed to anti-bias,…
It was a really busy week with the summer semester starting, so I didn’t read very much, but everything I finished was a five-star read. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a poetry collection where every single poem speaks to me in some way, where I legit love every single poem in the book. Even…
This topic came from a suggestion on Shawna Coppola’s blog. running puppies staying up late parties public speaking corn e-reading house cleaning tempeh sewing summer fireworks paperwork mashed potatoes camping meditation electric blankets lined notebook paper What are some things you wish you loved but don’t?
On the blog: A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize announcements A selection of my best cat photos from the past week In reading: My new favorite professional development book! I’m going to try to write a longer review later this week, but briefly: Dr. Muhammad introduces the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework she developed to address…
I take a lot of photos of my cats. Here are a few of my favorites from this week:
I started my day with the news, and today was yet another day when the world–when Americans–were too much for me. What has sustained me through the last twenty-four hours is reading and rereading these enlightening paragraphs from Dr. Ibram Kendi’s latest piece in The Atlantic: Slaveholders desired a state that wholly secured their individual…
On the blog: I finished up National Poetry Writing Month! A slice about Nagini, an outdoor stray who has taken up residence in our garage. A new wordless feature for Saturday, better known on the interwebs as Caturday A curation of six articles I thought were worth sharing In reading: The third volume of Virginia…
