Hot Topics: A multi-racial society

Being the leader of a school in a very diverse neighborhood in a major metropolitan area, I have students from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures and language families.  Interestingly, a portion of those students considers themselves biracial. So what does this mean for this child? This means that they think twice every time someone in authority [...]

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Catch Phrase! in the Classroom

It’s like Taboo! without the list of words you can’t say. The basic idea is to get the rest of your team to guess the word that has come up without saying the word itself. If you were building general English vocabulary, you could have students play with the hand-held game. Yet, if you wanted [...]

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Hot topics: Race in American Schools

Our forefathers wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Forty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the Washington Mall and said, I have [...]

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Introduction of regular features

I’ve been thinking quite a bit as to what I want I’d like for this blog.  Eventually, I’d like to see conversation with other professionals, that pushes my practice.  I want this blog to serve as a reflective and informational tool for myself, other instructional leaders, educators and policy makers. To accomplish this goal, I [...]

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