Social Justice Articles
Posted: Feb 7, 2018
Categories: Uncategorized
Recent articles written by State Teachers of the Year and Finalists in support of educational equity.
| When White Teachers Avoid Conversations About Race, We Marginalize Students of Color | Allison Riddle | EdWeek |
| We need more teachers like Black Panther's T'C'halla now! | James E. Ford | Education Post |
| This Black History Month Teach Your Students About African Americans in the Military | Kelisa Wing | Education Post |
| Someone Like Me: How One State Teacher of the Year Moved From Bias to Equity Literacy | Rebecca Eunmi Haslam | EdWeek |
| Some Kids Dare You to Teach Them | Rebecca Mieliwocki | EdWeek |
| I Know White Teachers Can Be Biased Against Kids of Color Because I Was | Sydney Chaffee | Education Post |
| Forget the White House, the Eagles Should Celebrate Black Lives Matter Week at my School | Topher Kandik | Education Post |
| This Teacher of the Year Showed Me Just How Important DACA Is | Mike Soskil | Education Post |
| Some Tips for a White Teacher Trying to Stop Being Racist | Tom Rademacher | Education Post |
| To achieve equity in my classroom, I had to check my own bias at the door | Karen Vogelsang | EdWeek |
| These Teachers of the Year Stand for Those Who Choose to Kneel | 2017 State Teachers of the Year | Education Post |
| Finding the Right School for Your Kid Shouldn’t Be a Privilege | Patrick Kelly | Education Post |
| You Can Keep Your School Choice Debate. I’m Choosing the Best Option for My Child. | Kelisa Wing | Education Post |
| When it Comes to Advanced Coursework, Equity is Access | Nate Bowling | EdWeek |
| Once You've Got a Seat at the Table, You Need to Have the Tough Conversations | Kelisa Wing | Education Post |
| I Shouldn't Have to Go to a Conference of Black Male Educators to Realize How Essential They Are for Our Schools | Tom Rademacher | Education Post |
| Librarians — It’s Time to Get on the Front Lines | Angie Miller | EdWeek |
| How Two Students’ Warmth and Support Helped Me Come Out at School | Becky Tapley | Education Post |
| I’m Trying to Teach My Students That Mass Shootings Aren’t Normal, But It’s Getting Harder | Michelle Pearson | Education Post |
| Here’s Everything You Should Do for LGBT History Month in Your Classroom | Rich Ognibene | Education Post |
| A Commitment to Justice: Educator to Educator | Jemelleh Coes | Education Post |
| Sometimes You Gotta Check Your Teacher Friends on Their Social Justice Activism | Jemelleh Coes | Education Post |
| Why the Hell Didn’t Someone Put These Books in My Hand When I Was Younger? | Nate Bowling | Education Post |
| Don't like 'take a knee'? Take a civics course. | Patrick Kelly | Education Post |
| When ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Good Enough at All for Our Students of Color | Josh Parker | Education Post |
| First-Generation Immigrants Like Mari Are Called DREAMers for a Reason | Kelisa Wing | Education Post |
| I was a racist teacher and I didn't even know it. | Laurie Calvert | Education Post |
| After Charlottesville: Having Tough Conversations in an Age of Extremism | Nate Bowling | EdWeek |
| Food Insecurity: The Hidden Equity Hurdle in our Schools | Brett Bigham | EdWeek |
| The Fight for Social Justice Begins in the Classroom | Topher Kandik | Education Post |
| To All of the Educators, Love Not Money Will Close the Gap | Kelisa Wing | Education Post |
| I Never Thought Gifted and Talented Kids Could Be At-Risk Too, Until My Son Said He Wanted to Drop Out of School | Michelle Pearson | Education Post |
| Every Single Educator Has to Stand Up and Recognize Racism in This Country | Maryann Woods-Murphy | Education Post |
| How does school choice work in rural schools?
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Anna Baldwin | EdWeek |
| Special Education Was Created to Push Students Forward But It’s Been Used to Hold Them Back | Jemelleh Coes | Education Post |
| Teachers, We Are Failing Our LGBT Youth. But There’s Something You Can Do Right Now. | Brett Bigham | Education Post |
| I Have the Courage to Teach LGBTQ Literature Because It Saved My Life | Jane McMahon | Education Post |
| Trauma is Real. But Connection Can Heal | Gary Abud | EdWeek |
| I Made Every Phone Call, Sent Every Email, Text and Tweet So My Student Could Attend the College of Her Dreams | Anna Baldwin | Education Post |
| Take After-School Programs Off of the Political Chopping Block | Allison Riddle | EdWeek |
| Teachers of the Year Sang ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ at the White House and It Was Everything | Kelisa Wing | Education Post |
| What Happens When a Student is Put Out of Class? | Josh Parker | EdWeek |
| What I Want From My Next Teaching Job | Tom Rademacher | EdWeek |
| Take Afterschool Programs Off the Political Chopping Block | Allison Riddle | EdWeek |
| Fighting for the Dreamers in and out of the Classroom | James Ford | EdWeek |
| To the Educators Who Will Teach My Colleague’s White Son | Jemelleh Coes | EdWeek |
| Lessons from the Garden: What Teachers Can Do to Help Our Most Vulnerable Students Thrive | Nate Bowling | EdWeek |
| What to do when the next awful thing happens
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Tom Rademacher | EdWeek |
| To the educators who will teach my Black daughter | Jemelleh Coes | EdWeek |
| 6 Things Teachers Can Do When Bad News Strikes | Angie Miller | EdWeek |
| Relationships are everything | James Ford
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EdWeek |
| The Difficult (and Satisfying) Run of Teaching Defiant Students | Allison Riddle | EdWeek |
| Mission-Minded Teaching | James Ford | EdWeek |
| Teaching Children of Color vs “Tough Love” | Justin Minkel | EdWeek |
| The Danger of a Single Story and How Common Core Can Help | Josh Parker | Education Post |
| Teens Talk about Racism | Mary Ann Woods Murphy | Education Post |
| This is the Summer of Race and Equity in Education | Anna Baldwin | Education Post |
| Your White Teacher is Woke | Maddie Fennell | Education Post |
| What it Means to Bridge the Gap | Jody Zepp | NNSTOY blog |
| Meet Jayden and Be Changed | Michael Dunlea | NNSTOY blog |
| 4 Things Every Teacher Should Do to Help Students Move Forward Post-Election | Monica Washington | Education Post |
| A Rural Teacher Gets a Glimpse into Urban School Discipline | Jaclyn Roller Ryan | NNSTOY blog |
| Reflections on Saving Tomorrow Today | Pat Jordan | NNSTOY blog |
