Raising a child requires profound strength and hope. You must believe in your ability to forge a future that is better than the one we currently inhabit, even if you never live to see it. – Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change I… Read More
Monthly archives of “September 2023”
5 Common Teacher Biases
As teachers, we wield tremendous power in our classrooms. Our interactions with students, day after day, pieced together over time, can build community in small and significant ways—or undermine it. Our decisions about curriculum, and whose experiences are represented in the literature we teach and… Read More
How Inclusive is Your Literacy Classroom… Really?
Several years ago, I published a guide for educators called, “How Inclusive is Your Literacy Classroom… Really?” Since then, I’ve kept coming back to these questions and have found them to be an important way to keep myself accountable in the work of creating truly… Read More

