I recently read an article by Doyin Oyeniyi titled “Why I’m only reading books by Writers of Color in 2015”, and it made me reflect back to a time in my teaching career when I only used writers of color in my English class in a public middle school in Philadelphia. In the mid 1990’s […]
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A great deal of teaching is done ‘in isolation’ – a teacher is assigned classes, preparation is done, and the classroom door is closed. Many schools encourage teachers to work together – many schools do not. Teachers can work against the isolation by reaching out to colleagues and sharing practice – then everyone’s practice can […]