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My first book, Suits, Swagg, and Success, is a part of a series that will share best practices and strategies I used in the classroom or as a school leader.  I’ve recently heard from current classroom teachers who would say that the issue in public schools isn’t so much classroom management, it’s meeting the social and emotional needs of our youth.  The children are in a mental health crisis, plagued by the ongoing battle of neglect and disassociation/distraction through devi

Dear Joe Clark,  The headlines for this year are centering the decline in Black Male Educators in public education across the country.  We know the attack on DEI and intentional reversal of the work done to increase restorative justice as opposed to pushing more Black children into the school to prison pipeline.  Personal preferences that once again make our individuality and uniqueness areas of scrutiny to be banned through books to silence our stories and stop the advanceme

Welcome to the fall season of 2024! At the start of this year, educational entities had  three (3) podcasts including the iWin Morning...

Participating in The OpEd Project as a Public Voices Fellow has been an empowering and transformative experience. This fellowship,...

Dr. King made a speech in the mid 1950’s that references and describes the Beloved community. The Beloved community is extremely...

The Educators Voice Blog is highlighting humanizing Black boys as an educational priority. Enjoy this interview of a Black male...

This open letter is to fellow Black educators in school leadership and administration. It’s not easy working in a system that needs to be...

My third year in education was the year I learned a very valuable lesson more than a decade ago at Ralph Johnson Bunche Middle School in...

Retired educator, Aaron Fernander would often quote to us in staff meetings, “Teach the children!” Over a decade ago, then Principal...

In America, Black people are still widely and truly excluded from what society refers to as “mainstream”. Thinking about the 95th Oscars...

Policies Impact Children’s Ability to Learn, answering the question, How can we get more scholarships and access for more Black youth...