It’s not even 6am and I already covered two different bombings with hundreds of deaths in north Gaza .

We are in the hospital - everyone is crying. Women, men, children - everyone is crying.

Ending our Reconstruction unit with the concept of a Third Reconstruction and a student-led forum on reparations. What examples of reparations (or struggles for reparations) can you share with my 10th graders?

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This is a genocide of children. 14 pages of babies. Babies. This is nothing short of an attempt to expunge a people. I look at my giggling son I feel sick. How could a child, even one child, be acceptable collateral for anything?

Best films about the First Great Migration and/or Harlem Renaissance?

Feels like judgment day in the Jabalia refugee camp. For the past hour, artillery shelling has been nonstop. Israeli occupation forces are demolishing houses while residents remain inside. The ongoing horrors include relentless bombing, continuous artillery fire, and snipers that

Looking for primary sources to teach about the NAACP and the Communist Party (ILD), and the divisions that existed between the Black working class and the Black bourgeoisie in the 1930s (including but not exclusively around the Scottsboro trial).

"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."

Soon starting a speculative fiction unit with my 9th graders that asks: How do we survive (the end of) this world? Is another world possible? What should we read? Especially short stories or excerpts. Film suggestions also welcome.

I'm certain this is a mistake but my book is somehow on Barnes & Noble's list of "Most Anticipated Nonfiction of 2025" (link below). BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City is out Aug 19th from W. W. Norton & Company

Where should people shelter in Gaza until Sunday? The past few hours, especially after the ceasefire deal was announced, have been some of the bloodiest in our lives.

Seeking films about the Palmer Raids to show my 10th grade US history class. Any recs?

“If schools are powerful enough to lay a pipeline to prison, then we can build a school-to-abolition pipeline instead.” My latest for Lux Magazine about creating a youth justice panel alongside fellow New Haven public school teachers + our incredible students. lux-magazine.com/article/school…

A former student of mine is getting on his feet working as a special education paraprofessional in the same district he graduated from. We all know paras deserve higher pay. Please help Dame out if you can and/or share his request for support. gofundme.com/f/from-homeles…

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water

How do I teach if parents can opt students out of knowing that I exist?

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from W. W. Norton & Company on August 19th.