Resource Articles

This page serves as a resource where articles have been compiled on various education topics.

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Education Policy

Book Bans

• There is Power in Understanding Policy

Government Policy

• Crafting Policy Takes Time, but Nothing Will Change Unless You Get Involved in the Process

• Do We Need to Mandate Cursive Writing or Should We Mandate Keyboarding Instead?

• More Educators of Color Need to be Involved in Education Policy

• Whose Child Has to Die for Gun Reform to Take Place?

School Based Policy

• Birthday Invitation Policy Gives Students False Sense of Reality

Literacy

Book Bans

• Banning Books Silences Stories and It Kills a Love of Reading

• Mississippi: A Book Makes People ‘Uncomfortable’ But What About Your Flag?

Literacy Issues & Resources

• Do Fountas and Pinnell Care if Children of Color and Poor Children Can Read?

• El día de los niños/El día de los libros

• If Your Child Doesn’t Like to Read, Try Comic Books

• Is the Student Lazy or Does the Student Have Dyslexia?

• Read Across America Day Should Not be Celebrated on Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

• World Read Aloud Day 2018

Parents as Partners

Parent & Caregiver Partnerships

• “At Least You Are in the Picture” – A Father’s Day Reflection

• Black with Kids: Representation Matters so be Intentional about It

• Black with Kids: When Your Child’s Teacher is Afraid of You (VIDEO)

• How Parents Can Partner with Their Child’s Teacher

• If Schools Don’t Like Black Hair, We Shouldn’t Give Them Our Black Children

• Is Your School District Graduating All Students at a High Rate?

• Parents are Needed to Help Students Deal with Bullying (VIDEO)

• Parents, Have You Prepared Your Child for Next School Year?

• Teachers, It Isn’t Your Job to Judge Parents

• Black With Kids:  We Have to Build Up Our Black Children Because the World Won’tTake Your Child to the Library Day

• Want to Find a Good School? Pay Attention to Where Teachers Send Their Kids.

• We Must Hold Each Other Accountable for Our Children’s Education

• When Teachers Fear Parents the Child Loses

• Your Spiritual Leader Does Not Need to Be Your Educational Leader

School Choice

School Options

• Address Old Issues before Implementing New School Models

• Indianapolis Classical Schools Show How Choice Can Create Diverse Schools (originally published on Education Post)

• Move the Conversation from School Type to School Success

• The Power of School Choice

• School Choice Week:  Stop Shifting the Focus from Great Schools for All

School Environment

Holidays

• Juneteenth:  Children Should Learn about this Day in School

• Should Schools Ban Halloween?

• Stop Romanticizing Thanksgiving

• What, to People of Color & Immigrants, is your 4th of July?

• What, to a Slave Descendant, is Your 4th of July?

School Discipline & Environment

• Being Culturally Responsive Starts with Pronouncing Names Correctly (VIDEO)

• Black with Kids: The Adultification of Black Children in School

• Body Safety Education in the Era of #Me Too

• Cafeteria Food Sucks for All Students, so When are We Going to Address This Issue in Schools?

• Educator Barnes Speaks to the Indiana Senate about School Discipline

• If We Don’t Support the Whole Child, Violence in School Will Continue

• Mindfulness & Wrap Around Services Support Student Success in Schools

• A New School Year – Tips for Teachers

• A Principal’s Words Have Power

• Regulating Black Hair is a Way to Control Black People & Traumatize Black Children (VIDEO)

• Say and Spell My Name Correctly Challenge (VIDEO)

• School Leaders Need to Pay Attention to World Afro Day

• Should Corporal Punishment Make a Comeback in Schools?

• To Improve Education, We Need the Entire Story

• What’s in a Name? Identity!

• When Policies Interfere with Our Children’s Education

School Lunch

• We Need Solidarity to Improve School Lunch Programs

Students

• A New School Year – Tips for Students

• Mental Health Remains Stigmatized in the Black Community While Black Youth Continue to Die from Suicide

• So, You Graduated. Now What?

Teachers

• 5 Tips to Have a Successful Parent/Teacher Conference

• 5 Tips for Teachers to Make It to Winter Break

• Adults Need to be Role Models in Helping Children Develop Mental Resilience

• #ArmMeWith Respect!

• Aspiring Indiana Teachers Cannot Pass Licensure Exams

• Black with Kids:  Teachers, If You Value Us, We Will Support You (VIDEO)

• Black with Kids:  When Will Having a Black Teacher Become the Norm Not the Exception? (VIDEO)

• Dear Elementary Teachers, Stop Taking Away Recess

• Departing IPS Teacher Leader Answers Your Questions

• Get Racist Teachers out of the Classroom

• If We Want to Diversify Professions, We Have to Provide Mirrors to Our YouthI

• f You’re a Struggling Educator, It is Okay to Admit You Need to Find Another Profession

• It Isn’t in My Blood to Walk Away from Education

• Life as a Black Educator:  When You are Asked to Answer for the Black Race (VIDEO)

• Mrs. Dingman, Thank You for Helping Me Find My Confidence

• Smiling Faces are Sometimes White Allies Who Don’t Tell the Truth

• Teacher Attendance Does Matter, but I Still Unapologetically Take Days Off at My School

• Teachers Need to Dress Professionally

• Teachers, Male or Female, Who Engage in Sex Acts with Children Have No Place in the Classroom

• Teachers Quit Principals, Not Schools

• Teachers Who Dress as Mexicans and the Border Wall Have No Place in Education

• When the Bully is Your Teacher

• Why This Teacher Leader is Leaving IPS

• World Teachers’ Day 2018 – Every Child Deserves an Education from a Qualified Teacher