Showing posts with label Students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Students. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2013

It's College Tour Season Part 2

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So, our second college tour happened to be the Historically Black College, Bowie State. Before we toured their campus, we went to the Nation...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

School Closings a Civil Rights Issue

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I'm glad somebody said it.... It's Not Always the Right Choice to Close a Failing School
Monday, April 22, 2013

Haiku for the Blue Planet Student Mosaic Part 1

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So, in the previous blog post I shared a mosaic that my students put together for Earth 2010. This year, we were already working on haikus w...

Ode to Earth Student Mosaic Part 1

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Back in 2010, I had my students create a mosaic to honor Earth on Earth Day. Each picture has a poem, in the form of an ode, celebrating nat...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Land of the Free?

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Student Punished for not Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Maryland

We Need to Talk About Injustice

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Economic status determines a lot for our children especially with the public school to prison pipeline being a very prevalent problem her...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Are Our Students Allowed to Flex Their Decision Making Muscles?

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"Simply put, we have fallen in love with the illusory certainty of making a choice, and abandoned any shared commitment to investing in...
Monday, April 15, 2013

While School Doors Close, Prison Cells Open

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Four major cities are closing several schools next year: Philadelphia (23), New York City (23), The District of Columbia (15) and Chicago (5...
Friday, April 12, 2013

180 Days: American High School

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PBS follows one struggling District of Columbia school's journey to redemption. This is probably one of the more realistic depictions o...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Kill Em' Kindness: How Teaching Empathy Curves the Bullying Epidemic

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I've been watching quite a few videos on empathy. America seems to be dealing with a huge bullying problem. From our classrooms all the ...