“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” Georgia Tech recently held their STEAM Leadership Conference. It was a virtual event, including presentations from educators around the country sharing their ideas and work around STEAM. Atlanta-based site artist Jeff Mather joined me to discuss the work he has beenContinue reading “Seeds”
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We Can Unleash the Genius of Our Students by Putting the Arts at the Center
Yoruba Twins: The Arts and Education
The discussion of the role of the arts in public education has become virtually lost in light of the school closings due to the global pandemic. Many of our scholars find their greatest joy in those moments when they are able to freely create in art and music classrooms. Art and education can be seenContinue reading “Yoruba Twins: The Arts and Education”
Citizen Ed: “This is America’s Down South White Tent Revival and I Am Here for It”
Education Week: How Principals are Responding to the Events at the U.S. Capitol
Reglas Para Los Negros
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2 Just along Euclid Avenue, tucked away between a smoke shop and an African market, in one of Atlanta’s most eclectic neighborhoods is a Mexican restaurant that doubles as one of my favorite locations for writing on weekends. IContinue reading “Reglas Para Los Negros”
Principals Don’t Walk on Water!
Canaries in the Mine
An influenza pandemic spreads across the nation in 1918 and 1919. As the cases grow, officials across the country decide to close schools. New York and Chicago decide to keep their schools open and send health care workers into the schools to closely monitor the conditions of the students and hygiene practices. In nine citiesContinue reading “Canaries in the Mine”
“Swingin’ in the Southern Breeze”
Corporal Punishment in Georgia Schools: 20-2-730, et seq. It may not be excessive or unduly severe or be used as a first line of punishment; it must be administered in the presence of a school official; a written explanation must be provided on request; and it may not be administered if a physician certifies thatContinue reading ““Swingin’ in the Southern Breeze””
My Heroes Wore Masks
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 24 years old when he published the poem “We Wear the Mask” in 1896. It was anContinue reading “My Heroes Wore Masks”
Where There’s Smoke…
“I’ve come upon something that disturbs me deeply. … but I have come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house. I’m afraid that America has lost the moral vision she may have had, and I’m afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand thatContinue reading “Where There’s Smoke…”
Leading Where We Dwell
So I got locked into all of the analysisAnd found myself locked into a kind of paralysisAnd something was calling and I almost didn’t hear itBut I spent a lot of time being blessed by the spirits -Gil Scott Heron from “Don’t Give Up” I live in East Atlanta. At 7:45am, the streets of LithoniaContinue reading “Leading Where We Dwell”
