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When You’re the Minority in Your Classroom

07/15/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

With only 2 weeks left until the start of the 2019-20 school year, I’m still gathering resources (mainly picture books) to share with my students. After school ended, I spent 2 days in a Culturally & Historically Responsive Literacy training at Georgia State with Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. To say the training was transformative would be … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Black students, Black teachers, Culturally Responsive Literacy, Culturally Responsive Teaching, DeKalb County, ESOL, Georgia public schools, Hispanic students, Hispanic teachers, Metro-Atlanta schools, Title I

In Defense of Summer Work Packets

06/18/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

I wanted to write this post during the last week of school, but I’ll be completely honest: I was too tired. Once school officially ended, I kept telling myself “Tomorrow”. Again: I didn’t get around to it. Then, last week, one of those #edugurus tweeted that summer work packets were a waste of time. Needless … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Black students, ELL, ESOL, Hispanic students, Latino students, Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Special Needs, summer vacation, Title I, Urban education

In Response to the Effect of School Segregation on the Proportion of Black Students in Special Education

05/29/2019 by admin 1 Comment

Shortly after I returned home from school, I noticed that my good friend @ShanaVWhite tagged me in a post shared by @PedroANoguera. Upon opening the tweet, I immediately got a sinking feeling in my stomach. I thought: Not this again? By ‘this’ I mean the idea of whether Black students (capital ‘B’), namely boys, are … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Black students, Black students with Special Needs, Hispanic students, segregated schools, Special Education, Urban schools

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