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
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
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
The aim of each thing we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible. – Audre Lorde Raising a child requires profound strength and hope. You must believe in your ability to forge a future that is… Read More
We’ve always been a little behind when it comes to our oldest son. As the oldest of our three, he gets to experience most things before his brothers, which means that we get to help him navigate all of these firsts for the first time,… Read More
The start of another #31DaysIBPOC series brings with it an opportunity to reflect—and after the year that has been, there’s certainly a lot to reflect back on. There’s a lot I could say about this last year of pandemic living and teaching—how so much and… Read More
This school year will be my 20th year in the classroom. For the past 19 years, summer months have provided necessary respite—the quiet pause—I’ve needed to refuel for the coming school year. To refill my cup so that I can arrive well and whole for my students… Read More
Last year, in my first post for this series, I asked, how do we show up? What does it mean to “show up” in anti-racist work? What does it mean to “show up” in educational spaces—educational spaces which (of all places) should be inherently anti-racist… Read More
This is a guest post by Michelle Martin, PhD, for the #31DaysIPBOC project. Dr. Martin is the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services at the University of Washington Information School. When I was five years old, two different relatives gave me the same doll… Read More
Advancing the false idea that teaching through an antiracist lens and developing students’ reading and writing skills are mutually exclusive is a gross misinterpretation of the work I see many teachers do—teachers who engage students in deep learning and support them in developing the skills… Read More
Tricia Ebarvia 
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