It may not be perfect, but Illinois needs SB1
Late this spring, I was walking into our district’s administrative offices for meetings. As I made it up to the business office, I ran...
In the era of “alternative facts”: Let’s lead
As everyone knows, those who don’t know the past are doomed to repeat it. As we face wave after wave of attacks on our...
Don’t mourn, organize!
I will never forget the first time my school was attacked by a well-organized sleeper cell of grizzly bears. For months, the local park...
The myth of “color blindness”
I can tell you the exact moment I realized my behavior was racially biased.
I grew up in a predominantly white suburb of Chicago. I...
Tired of attacks on education? Sound off at the voting booth
I was derelict in my duties to write last year. It wasn’t by choice though.
While at the NEA Representative Assembly this year I was...