Book Review March: Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience Csikszentmihalyi’s blind spot is a critical one: that poverty is a cause of inattention and a lack of cognitive resources, not an effect. Nick Covington 31 Mar 2021 • 5 min read
Progressive Education Gradeless: An English Teacher’s Journey Towards Agency Through Feedback I knew I wanted to do my best to represent student growth in the most accurate way I possibly could. While I know my methods are far from perfect, I have seen remarkable growth and a complete shift in focus in my students. Theresa Walter 19 Mar 2021 • 5 min read
Progressive Education Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others Even the most well-intentioned changes can have horrific outcomes. Chris McNutt 12 Mar 2021 • 5 min read
Purpose Finding and Community COVID-19 Brought Us Closer For the most part, my middle child and I are vastly different and it usually causes us trouble in our relationship. But Coronavirus has brought us closer. LaTanya Coleman-Carter 20 Feb 2021 • 6 min read
Book Review January: Teacher & Child by Haim Ginott This work outlines the day-to-day interactions teachers have with children, offering suggestions to solve the minute interactions that encompass most of this profession. Chris McNutt 1 Feb 2021 • 9 min read
Social Justice and Activism Grades as the Gatekeeper to Privilege in Schools Despite the initial purpose of grades being an assessment of learning, schools often use grades as a sorting mechanism within the school’s social structure. Shelley Buchanan 15 Jan 2021 • 4 min read
Critical Analysis The Dark Underbelly of School Remediation Too often, we hear calls for research-based remediation for struggling schools and students. And too often, these are the students and schools that are in low-income, struggling neighborhoods. Shelley Buchanan 4 Jan 2021 • 3 min read
Book Review We Want to Do More Than Survive Love’s approach to teaching invites us to build our pedagogical praxis around civic engagement and intersectional justice so we can move past reformist paradigms and practice educational freedom. Vineeta Singh 19 Dec 2020 • 13 min read
Book Review December: A Wolf At the Schoolhouse Door & the Unmaking of Public Education What are the tenets guiding the unmaking of public education, what are the aims of the unmakers, and what is there for the rest of us to be worried about? Nick Covington 4 Dec 2020 • 10 min read
Book Review November: Manufacturing Happy Citizens by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control Our Lives by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz provides a convincing condemnation of "positive psychology", the relatively recent scientific study of happiness. Chris McNutt 12 Nov 2020 • 14 min read
Critical Analysis One Teacher Can't Save the World What is it about the world that is worth preparing students for, and are we dedicated to the work of building that better world alongside them? Nick Covington, Chris McNutt 28 Oct 2020 • 5 min read
Critical Analysis A Teacher's Case for Critical Race Theory What is this “toxic propaganda” the White House and Senate are taking action over, and what are the consequences of having CRT banned from our schools and public institutions? Nick Covington 14 Oct 2020 • 12 min read
Critical Analysis We Need to Think Critically About How the Pandemic is Impacting Our Schools Dan Kearney 9 Oct 2020 • 4 min read
Critical Analysis Language and literacy teaching with games: the “who” and transformative actions Jonathan deHaan 2 Sep 2020 • 38 min read
Social Justice and Activism Hindsight We don’t know what the world will look like, but this will be another chapter in our lives that will end and upon which we will be able to look back. Lisa Biber 14 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
Progressive Education Liberatory Learning: Dismantling the Hidden Curriculum This is a recap of our asynchronous professional development session, where we worked as a cohort to develop actions and solutions for equitable practices in our classrooms. Chris McNutt, Nick Covington 11 Aug 2020 • 7 min read