Sid, who tweets @ThatTeacherSid on Twitter, posted the following tweet a few days ago: https://twitter.com/ThatTeacherSid/status/1330169233377009664 I need to do some work on my dissertation, so I’m hoping a reply here on my blog will limber me up for writing. Is that possibly a form of procrastination? Maybe, but here are my recommendations, and you might…
On this 4th of July, Independence Day in the United States, I wanted to share a few thoughts. First, Langston Hughes’s response to Walt Whitman. I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow,…
My thoughts in this blog post are incomplete, as I am still trying to figure out how to articulate what I am feeling about teaching in our current climate. I finished reading both Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and James Baldwin’s  The Fire Next Time this week. Thinking about the implications for the future of education and for our country…
