Category: marginalized students
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Does Your School Practice Equity?
It is that time of year when students are returning to schools all across our country. The type of school they are returning to will play a significant role in their success or lack thereof. If they are returning to an EQUITY School, then their success is all but guaranteed. These are schools that believe:…
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Leveled Reading Instruction Destroys Equity
Teaching students to read with instructional level reading groups keeps marginalized students marginalized. The system must be changed.
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Be BOLD: Equity Required for High Achievement
Over the past year I have written multiple times about how critical equity is for ensuring all of our children master rigorous state standards. It is not something to be put on the back burner for more favorable times. As parents we all want our children to succeed on state standards and go beyond that…
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Equity: Practice of Love and Inclusion
A rigorous education that ensures children at least master state standards is the expectation for every child in the United States. Our educational system in the United States has struggled since its very beginnings to include all children in a rigorous education. However, despite this struggle, dedicated educators and parents have never given up on…
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Indicted or Changing the System?
What do you do when you live in a country that continues to marginalize people, including the very children you are working to serve, to educate? What do you do when this system rachets up its effort to marginalize people rather than take actions to improve the lives of marginalized people? I was thinking about…
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Equity is Acting Humanely
Some people in today’s political discourse treat equity like a dirty word. Something to be avoided. They claim that equity gives an unfair advantage to some people over others and therefore we must get rid of equity. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Equity is doing whatever it takes to ensure everyone reaches a…
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Educators Standing Up for All Students
In these turbulent times educators are prevailing over chaos and working relentlessly to ensure all students are educated to high levels. We celebrate them for their fearless and tireless commitment to their students. The past three months have been more chaotic for educators than normal. Educators face challenges each day as they work to ensure…
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What We Lose When the Department of Education is Eliminated
The chaos in Washington DC regarding what schools should do is being compounded. First DEI was declared a threat that needed to be eradicated. Now efforts are focused on eliminating the US Department of Education. Should we care about the US Department of Education? Is it useful? Is it helpful to the goal of educating…
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More Trauma for Students
Some of our country’s most marginalized students are once again dealing with trauma that significantly interferes with their learning. As federal agents ramp up raids on immigrants, tensions have heighted in minority communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and many places of business. News media is already sharing stories of citizens caught up in these raids due…
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The Election is Over Now What?
Are you an educator asking now what after the most recent presidential election? As educators, we work relentlessly day after day to ensure all students master rigorous standards and graduate high school college and/or career ready. Providing students whatever it takes so that all students achieve at high levels is not for the faint of…