Category: Education

Stress, Hostility, Depression, Hopelessness, and Job control

If your curriculum doesn't address these five areas, it does not address the psychosocial reality Black boys and men face. Whether they acknowledge it or not. To address some of these areas, you need more than a teacher. You need more than a therapist. You need an environment free from the constraints that traditional schooling … Continue reading Stress, Hostility, Depression, Hopelessness, and Job control →

Writing Prompts

https://videopress.com/v/4oYxHrdM?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Had a good second class. One of my favorite activities to do with students is writing prompts. For one, they are suitable for task initiation goals and writing goals. More importantly, they communicate how the student is doing. Even if that isn't the question, you can gauge students' effort level by how they write. … Continue reading Writing Prompts →

Student-Athletes and Mental Health

While there are resources for student-athletes, knowing when student-athletes need them can be challenging, so making these services available may not be enough. Whether it's individualizing and finding a way to add mental health checks to the yearly health check. Or just emphasizing mental health more and possibly creating a class or workshops for student-athletes to talk, learn, and reflect. It will help them off the court, and addressing mental health in athletes will also help them perform better in their respective fields of play.

We need the Lox vs. Dipset energy in our classrooms for our Black Boys

The energy that we witnessed on and off stage at the latest versuz that took place on August 3rd was amazing to watch. The more I thought about the performance and the things that made it so dope. The more I realized that the very energy we saw on display in Madison Square Garden is exactly what is needed in the classroom for our Black boys. Unfortunately, these elements are also what get Black boys in trouble in classrooms all over the US, including here in my city of Seattle, WA.

Price of being Young, Black, and Gifted

There are many more examples, like Bob Gibson in baseball, Tiger Woods at Augusta, or Shaq in the modern-day NBA, to name a few more. This is not new, but her reaction to that adversity is compared to other great Black players I mentioned. Simone Biles, continue to be the fantastic athlete you are and do not allow them to determine or derail your greatness! 

Four Reasons that may make you rethink celebrating the Brown v. Board of Education decision

1. Black Teachers lost their jobs. 2. Elimination of a pipeline that would produce teachers and faculty members. 3. Tens of billions of dollars of incremental funding shifted from Black to white communities. 4. Black children exposed to a higher concentration of teachers with lower expectations for them.