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…]
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…]
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…]