Education

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…

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.

saying the pledge of allegiance

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

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.

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…

Parenting Tanehisi Coates

While no one’s parents are perfect, the parents of Tanehisi Coates, the prolific writer who was called “the James Baldwin of our era” by Toni Morrison, did some great things that all parents and teachers can learn from in order to instill a love of learning in children. Here’s what…

I should be more focused.

So many times I’ve heard students say this, blaming themselves for being bored in class or not understanding the material. For some students, maybe being more focused is the solution, but for many other students, learning in a more engaging environment is a better solution. An…

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