Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865: the day that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and told slaves of their emancipation. "In accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free," Granger read to a crowd....
The events in NYC and Minnesota over the weekend are additional examples of how our communities of Color are under constant attack in the United States. As White woman who continues to struggle with my own privilege and role in a society that attacks people...
This blog series is aimed at helping educators in a time of uncertainty and challenge. Does anyone else feel like Alice when she falls through the rabbit hole into a strange new world? All of the chaos that’s part of the COVID-19 pandemic leaves me feeling...
This leadership skills blog series is aimed at helping educators in a time of uncertainty and challenge. Great leaders are made during time of adversity. Leadership is challenging during times of predictably and exponentially harder in times of uncertainty. I love my team at CT3. They are...
This blog series is aimed at helping educators with online school leadership in a time of uncertainty and challenge. In just a few short weeks, the nature of school leadership has shifted dramatically in its scope, responsibility, and urgency. At CT3, we know the inherent value...
This blog series is aimed at helping educators with online learning in a time of uncertainty and challenge. I got a text today from a good friend and colleague in Chicago who NEVER works from home. The text read, “Tell me how you do it!!! How...
Happy Teacher Rule #1: Don't look at discomfort as a negative. Teaching is hard, and it should be. If you are doing it well, it means you are actively pursuing and working towards getting 100% of your students engaged, 100% of the time. That takes a...
Courageous Conversations Training This post originally appeared in The 74 on September 18, 2017. With the election of our first black president, many clung to hope that we had entered a post-racial America. The recent events in Charlottesville proved that we are not as far along in...
Supporting Black Males in the Classroom In a country where one in three black males will be incarcerated at some point in their lives (Equal Justice Initiative, 2018), who do black males run to for support? The statistics are alarming. According to NAACP.org, African Americans/blacks are...
If you see something, say something. I started my teaching career in middle school with a resource room math class. I had never taught math before and didn’t have any curriculum materials to draw from, so I went to the eighth-grade math teacher on my team...