My great grandmother!
Someone posted this photo on a Facebook page dedicated to my hometown of Blackstone, Massachusetts. Along with it was an image of the back of the photo, which listed the…
The Catholic Church doesn’t get to say this to children anymore
The students at Nativity School, a predominantly Black Catholic middle school in Worcester, MA, resoundingly expressed their wishes back in January 2021: They wanted to fly a Black Lives Matter…
This is what teachers want, need, and deserve, as uncomfortable as it might make some feel
It's a challenging time to be a teacher. Coming off three years of teaching in a pandemic, children have enormous social, emotional, and academic needs. Many are struggling with trauma,…
Learned from my mistake
On Tuesday night, I was in Boston while Charlie played in his first playoff game of the season. I was sitting in the audience at a Moth StorySLAM, waiting for…
Crayons
It's not a restaurant's primary or even secondary responsibility to provide crayons to its patrons, but when you're kind enough to offer crayons to children, it takes almost no effort…
Cowards
On Saturday 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front were arrested near an Idaho pride event after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck…
Positive in any way possible
We need as much positivity in our lives as we can muster. Sadly, our brains retain and overvalue negative feedback over positive feedback, so we require about six positive statements…
Judges with the temperaments of children should not be judges
In a 4-3 decision at the Ohio Supreme Court, a judge’s decision to add six more years to a person’s sentence after the individual called them a “racist ass bitch”…
Beverage talk is boring
We have a new rule in my classroom, proposed by a student, that my students and I fully support: No more beverage talk. Beverage talk is boring. If you're telling…
The non-response is often the best response
As a person who receives a lot of feedback from folks online - and not always kind, generous, or even coherent - I often have to decide how to respond.…
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