Articles Other How to teach kids they don't belong… and how to teach them they do. My transracial adoption story.
Articles What Should We Tell The Children? “What should I say to my students after the election, if Trump wins?” a principal asked me recently. Good question. What should we tell our children?
Articles Being Honest about Racial Violence without Traumatizing our Kids A dad joins a group of parents and educators working together to teach a group of mostly privileged children about systemic oppression and injustice.
Events Supporting Kids Of Color Amid Racialized Violence: Part Two A conversation with Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith and Dr. Sandra "Chap" Chapman about how to guide and support kids of color in the wake of high profile - or not so high profile - incidents of racialized violence.
Children’s Books Let's Talk About Reparations: What Does the Publishing Industry… Zetta Elliot asks colleagues in the kid literature community to share their insights on reparations in the children’s publishing industry and what can be done after hundreds of years of excluding and/or distorting kids of color and Native children.
Articles At-Risk: Who Will Save our Rich White Boys? The stakes are enormous. Can good teaching save America? Considering the number of education-focused entities in America today, there are plenty of folks who believe that this is true. I’m one of them.
Articles Race, Education, and Donald Trump How American education produced the audience for a nonsense candidate.
Articles "Ive Never Had A White Baby Before..." Would healthy racial identity development and strong adoptive family bonds be undermined by the arrival of a baby who would be my biological child and would also share my racial identity?