As an educator, I’ve always prided myself on staying ahead of the curve. I helped to found one of the most technologically advanced schools in the world—Avenues: The World School in New York City—with a vision to prepare students not just for today, but for tomorrow. We were hailed as a New School of Thought, and rightly so. We brought education into the digital age, embracing the power of technology to equip students for a future we could only begin to imagine. Our school ha

For decades, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have carried a moral banner: open doors wider, extend ladders further, and create opportunity for those historically shut out. But the way we’ve pursued that noble goal has been based on race using race as the primary qualifier for scholarships and more. To open the doors wider, academia has even made concessions allowing lower SAT or GPA expectations for certain groups. For example, the University of Michigan’s

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Why This Educator is going into social media and why every educator should be doing the same.  I never envisioned that my career in...

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I have met many types of children in my 20+ years in education, but my favorite kind is what I call the fairy children.  Fairy children...

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The Teacher Shortage: A Crisis in the Making It was graduation day at Duke University in 2003. A sea of black robes filled the football...

Often, people ask why I pursued a master's degree in special education despite never teaching in a special needs setting. My response...

If you’ve set foot on a college campus recently and dared to engage in dialogue, you might find that mission… impossible. Discourse has...