A few months ago, I had the opportunity to talk with two other speakers with a group of doctoral students in a program at a university here in Denver. The focus of the class on this particular night was mental health in schools. As usual, I was there to speak Read more…
Thomas Chatterton Williams’ Losing My Cool (2010) has been called “a provocative intellectual memoir” by the USA Today, and helped gain Chatterton Williams considerable attention and notoriety as a thinker and critic. Losing My Cool is a first person account of the events of his adolescence with hip hop culture Read more…
But it’s a problem when it actively prevents another person from getting an opportunity. You should absolutely put your kids in the best position to be successful in life. On the controversy of Bronny James benefiting from his father, Lebron James’ success: Bronny has a dream of playing in the Read more…
Skimming through the 40 or so interviews I’ve conducted on The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, it’s obvious that an overwhelming number of guests thus far have been Black women. They come on the podcast to share their journey into education, why they left, what districts can do Read more…
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” – Audre Lorde Maybe it’s time to rethink school district-sponsored affinity spaces. A few weeks ago, I met with Jalisa Evan, executive director of the Black Educator Advocates Network, whose organization focuses on supporting Black educators in creating equitable spaces through Read more…
As a principal and as a parent I am consistently overwhelmed by the difference between what parents say they value in schools and the decisions they make when choosing schools with and for their children. Parents will often claim that their priority when choosing a school is the wellness, wholeness Read more…
What happens when a group of women and non-binary folks get together with the intention to heal in community? That was the question Dr. Ellie Cahill and I asked when we started thinking about a healing space for Black educators. Our work, we imagined, would be focused on showing Black Read more…
It has been two years of DJEC and the Ednium Alumni Collective trying to understand the concept of student success. We even created a full issue on the topic in which I encouraged people to reconsider how they define success and ask, what is the responsibility of a school in Read more…
In this 5-part series, we follow Chief Writer Allan Tellis, as he explores the ways that the global COVID-19 pandemic is producing unique local impacts in the Denver region. In this first report, we learn about the ways many Denver-area parents are adjusting to the pause in public education as Read more…
The last several months have placed a significant strain on people’s individual and collective mental health. However, mental health professionals stress that it is paramount we do not think of the toll the pandemic has taken on our mental health in isolation. Not only has the pandemic shutdown taken a toll Read more…
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