Greetings community! It’s been a while since I’ve written a post, mostly because I’ve been engrossed in writing the proposal for my second book. This next project will dig into the concept of street data (which made a cameo in Book 1) and its connection to educational equity. I am thrilled to be collaborating with [...]
I just got back from chilly Minneapolis, where I delivered a keynote to over 200 superintendents on "Listening and Leading for Equity." I escaped the Midwest just before a storm moved in that would have trapped me! In the keynote, I spoke about three levers that I believe make a big difference in schools: deep [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about my journey as a reader and, specifically, my journey to become a critical reader of complex text. According to Jennifer Duncan at the University of Toronto, "Critical reading is a more active way of reading. It is a deeper and more complex engagement with a text. Critical reading is [...]
Math teacher/teacher leader Demian Martens reimagines the equity landscape of his school through our arts integration experience. Our first open-call Brave Spaces Institute last week was a wonderful and humbling experience. We brought together teams from across California and as far as Minneapolis for a deep exploration of what it means to be [...]
About a month ago, I did my first sprint triathlon in Santa Cruz, California with my coparent Manny. This entailed a half-mile open water swim, a 12-mile bike course, and three-mile run. I trained, sort of, for a couple of months and was feeling pretty confident about everything except the open water. I have always [...]
I recently traveled to Detroit with my colleague Victor Cary, Senior Director of the National Equity Project, to lead a "shared equity experience" for the Hewlett Foundation’s Deeper Learning network. Each year, Hewlett convenes about 200 grantees who are thought and action leaders in the field of progressive pedagogy. Deeper learning might be considered a [...]
Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) has become a central concept in the education world. My colleague Zaretta Hammond offers a brilliant and accessible framework in her book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Corwin, 2014). One of the questions that my book, The Listening Leader, tries [...]
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