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Laura Sofen’s inner angry teenager guides her each day as a teacher.

Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.

Black students everywhere made history as pioneers paving the way for racial integration in their hometowns.

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

Let’s uncover implicit bias—together.

During one particularly frenetic transition in the classroom recently, Mila bounded up to me and asked, “Mrs. B, do you think I could be a writer someday?” Without blinking, I emphatically replied, “Absolutely, I can totally see you as a writer.” She smiled and skipped over to join her friends in line to go to recess. A few minutes later, as we were walking through the halls, I overheard her say excitedly to a friend, “Mrs. B thinks I can be a writer. She told me so.” She walked out for recess practically on air.

Maya Angelou was an activist up until the very end of her life: visible, accessible, present to the people to whom her work and her message of hope meant the most.