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Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How the Testing Industry Manufactured the "Learning Loss" Narrative

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How the Testing Industry Manufactured the "Learning Loss" Narrative

In the wake of pandemic schooling, the testing industry sees an opportunity to sell schools on assessments and interventions that line their pocket-books, but do their claims live up the cost?

2 Jul 2021 • 10 min read

June 2021: Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet

June 2021: Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet

Alex Shevrin Venet's Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education is a masterful work which inspires a systemic look at the injustices in classrooms, schools, and communities.

25 Jun 2021 • 6 min read

How Teachers Can Start a Grassroots Revolution for Better Schools

How Teachers Can Start a Grassroots Revolution for Better Schools

The Biden Administration offers a space for educators to demand transformation. But that does not mean that we can count on better outcomes coming from the federal government.

23 Jun 2021 • 4 min read

Binary Solutions to Systemic Problems

Binary Solutions to Systemic Problems

This year has highlighted that there is a continual issue with equity in education; and that there’s a serious problem with the way schooling in general is tackling the issues we face today.

28 May 2021 • 12 min read

May 2021: We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

May 2021: We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba's collection of writings, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice is a perfect encapsulation of understanding the carceral network, the importance of organizing, and counteracting inhumane systems.

23 May 2021 • 10 min read

100 Days of Conversations: Amplifying Communities to Reimagine Education

100 Days of Conversations: Amplifying Communities to Reimagine Education

In our pilot, we explored a reimagination of this project as a result of the pandemic, while simultaneously recognizing that the American education system was already in need of change.

14 May 2021 • 4 min read

March: Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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.

31 Mar 2021 • 5 min read

Gradeless: An English Teacher’s Journey Towards Agency Through Feedback

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.

19 Mar 2021 • 5 min read

Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others

Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others

Even the most well-intentioned changes can have horrific outcomes.

12 Mar 2021 • 5 min read

COVID-19 Brought Us Closer

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

January: Teacher & Child by Haim Ginott

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.

1 Feb 2021 • 9 min read

Grades as the Gatekeeper to Privilege in Schools

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

The Dark Underbelly of School Remediation

The Dark Underbelly of School Remediation

Shelley Buchanan

4 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

We Want to Do More Than Survive

We Want to Do More Than Survive

19 Dec 2020 • 13 min read

December: A Wolf At the Schoolhouse Door & the Unmaking of Public Education

December: A Wolf At the Schoolhouse Door & the Unmaking of Public Education

4 Dec 2020 • 10 min read

November: Manufacturing Happy Citizens by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz

November: Manufacturing Happy Citizens by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz

12 Nov 2020 • 14 min read

One Teacher Can't Save the World

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

A Teacher's Case for Critical Race Theory

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?

14 Oct 2020 • 12 min read

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