These Sixth-Graders Are Recreating Classic Book Covers for Black History Month
Terrance Sims is getting creative this Black History Month. A sixth-grade teacher, Sims and his students recreated classic book covers written by famous Black historical figures. “Our scholars pay...
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6 Things Black Students Need to Hear After Nipsey Hussle’s Death
“He was a former gang member…and in other news…” That’s what my favorite local news station, WGN, had to say about Ermias Joseph Asghedom—better known as rapper and songwriter Nipsey Hussle—in...
View ArticleVIDEO: We’re Black Education Advocates and We’re Taking Our Seats at the Table
First let me say that the views and and opinions expressed in this piece are not those of Tanesha Peeples, Deputy Director of Outreach for Education Post, but those of Tanesha Peeples, resident of...
View ArticleThese Kids Show You How to Celebrate School Choice Week
It’s National School Choice Week and students from around the country can’t stop dancing. Yes, dancing is a thing. Every year, students don their yellow scarves and put together a routine celebrating...
View ArticleVIDEO: We’re Not Doing Enough to Fight Racism in Our Schools
On religious holidays, so many of us have family and faith community practices of rereading stories related to that holiday. On Independence Day, I’m not alone in the practice of rereading the...
View Article‘No Excuses’ Only Works When It Applies to the Adults in the School, Too
Many schools with strict discipline practice what they call a “no excuses” philosophy. The problem with many “no excuses” schools is that the motto is often imposed on children but not adults. The...
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Stephen Hawking Showed Us That Every Student Has Hidden Talents, Even Those...
Last night, I heard the news of Stephen Hawking’s passing. He and I had been corresponding these past few weeks and I knew he had been ill. As a teacher of medically fragile students, I know how even...
View ArticleRobert F. Kennedy, the ‘Complicated’ Advocate for Civil Rights
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was killed on June 6, 1968. He was a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination that year. His assassination came only two months after Martin Luther King Jr. was...
View ArticleMy School Showed Me My Passion and Now I’m a Filmmaker
In Georgia, 84,000 students attended charter schools in the 2016-17 school year. My story is just one of thousands of success stories of students who have been able to pursue their dreams thanks to the...
View ArticleIt Was Hard Being a Dyslexia Mom Before Coronavirus and Now It’s Even Harder
For me, helping my son go from a bright but illiterate fourth-grader to a high school student who can read and write was an incredible full-time job. It was really hard to understand that a regular...
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