Why poor students will always be behind

In our current system of education (and well, also society)

We are designing schools for poor students to catch up with rich white kids (RWK), while they have already moved on to the next big thing. At this rate, poor students will…

saying the pledge of allegiance

yesterday, after too many years to count, i said the pledge of allegiance while visiting a school.

One class per term

In high school

Inspired by the TED talk below about Quest University in Canada.

What if the school year was split into 6 terms of 6 weeks, and during each term students only took one class for half of the day every day? 4 hours a day, every day…

classroom management is crippling students

“If your students aren’t behaving, it’s because your lesson isn’t strong enough and your instructions aren’t clear enough.”

This age old wisdom for managing classrooms is doing our students a disservice.

I love that students are on Medium

They keep us in check in our conversations about education by offering their unique and critical perspective on all sorts of topics.

Yay for #stuvoice! Keep participating and posting students.