School Closure: Where's the Failure?
I think it's pretty to safe to say most educators don't believe in keeping the doors open of chronically failing schools. Our wish is...
Supporting Striving Readers to Unlock Word Problems
I'm sure we all can look back on the days of school and remember learning our multiplication facts. Perhaps, you remember checking the...
A 50-Year Old Debate Leads to Literacy Malpractice
Have you ever been excited about about teaching a lesson? You planned engaging activities, thought about where kids will struggle, and...
Minstrelsy of a Black Principal
Black folks have a long history with minstrelsy. A history well before this form of entertainment began in the 19th century. From the...
Building Fluent Readers
In the age of Common Core, all we've heard is that we need to teach complex texts, ask higher order thinking questions, and oh...
Battle Ground: Charter vs. Traditional Public Schools
It's been two decades and the battle continues. Cross-fire of accusations of public schools failing generations and charters...
The Shift to Common Core Has Stretched the Literacy Classroom to Exhaustion
In 2006, ACT, Inc., released a riveting report that provided insight as to which students had a higher probability of making the cut. ...
We've Yet to Crack the Code on Black Boys
The classroom has become the breeding ground of anxiety, degradation, defeat, and the dwindling of self-efficacy. The black boy is...
