Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part Four)
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So far in this blog series, I’ve shown the discrepancies between the proportion of Black, Latine, and economically disadvantaged students...
Doug Wren
- Jun 13, 2022
Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part Three)
Welcome back to my blog series. In Part 1, I explained that the series is an update to my June 2021 article, Promoting Privilege:...
Doug Wren
- Jun 9, 2022
Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part Two)
In Part 1, I explained that the purpose of this blog series is to provide updates to my June 2021 journal article. In the article, I...
Doug Wren
- Jun 2, 2022
Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part One)
My most recent journal article, Promoting Privilege: Selecting Students for a Public Gifted School, was published one year ago this...
Melissa Smith
- Feb 9, 2022
This Is How YOU See Me? The Dehumanization of Black Bodies In OUR SCHOOLS
“I’m going to curl my lower lip back and let my upper row of teeth come down and rest on my lip.” “Gently blow air through a very small...
Meghan Raftery
- Oct 1, 2021
Intercultural Competence: A Journey, Not a Destination
If you’ve been around Edjacent for a while (before it even had a name), you may recall a blog post I wrote in June 2020 called You Should...
Melissa Smith
- Aug 16, 2021
You’ve Been Given a Seat – to Liberation
Wow! That feeling when you feel you’ve “made it.” You’re a woman of color and you’ve been given a leadership position and secured a seat...
Melissa Smith
- Aug 5, 2021
Put Some Respect on my B (not b)
As a Reading Specialist, I think a lot about grammar and syntax, tone and voice, parts of speech, and overall word choice. How and when...
Doug Wren
- Jul 25, 2021
Why Gifted Programs Lack Diversity
Before taking a central office job with the DeKalb County (GA) School District, I was a classroom teacher at a magnet school for high...
Meghan Raftery
- Jul 7, 2020
WAIT - Why Am I Talking?
Get audio from Libro.fm I have so much to say about Ta-Nehisi Coates masterpiece, The Water Dancer. I listened to this book while walking...
Jared Fritzinger
- Jun 17, 2020
Don’t Fool Yourself. Education is Politics.
Systemic oppression is endemic in public education. It’s time we faced our fears and called it out. Jared Fritzinger is a Civics and...
Meghan Raftery
- Jun 1, 2020
You Should Know
You should know, I wrote this post almost two years ago, but I was too afraid to post it. I still am, but I am going to anyway. You...
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