In my work as an aspiring co-conspirator helping to “call in” my fellow White* folks and explicitly supporting equity and justice efforts within my community and beyond, I am often asked in conversations–most often by fellow White folks–why I (frequently) choose to “focus on race.” Why not draw attention to…

“Teaching is love in its purest form.” –Unknown Walk into any discount department store during the month of August, and you will find an abundance of magnets, mugs, t-shirts, and pillows that feature a quote about teaching and its connection to love or care. For many K-12 educators in the…

As a white teacher–one of the roughly 80% that make up all U.S. educators– I’ve perpetuated, engaged in, and been complicit in curricular violence (Ighodaro & Wiggan, 2011) more often than I care to count during my over two decades of working in education. There was the time my colleague…

While there is so much uncertainty for many of us around school reopening plans, effective practices for building online communities (especially when the cameras are off and the mics are muted), and even how to plan for tomorrow, let alone next week– there is certainty around the need for us…

[CW: sexual assault, rape, allusion to molestation] DURING You think it’s odd, the moan, the one he utters when you stroke his arm as the two of you sit watching Wayne’s World in the dark, the light from the television illuminating your faces and making ghastly shadows that flicker behind…

I was reading a professional text fairly recently that, in many ways, moved me to nod my head so frequently as I read that I resembled one of those bobble head turtles that you find at craft fairs and flea markets. There was so much I loved about what the…