The sound of a gunshot is surprisingly ordinary, more of a crack than a bang. —

My goal is for my students to be free but I can’t do liberation for them. — Marquise can hold space. You know when Marquise is in the classroom. Not because he is fidgeting or cracking jokes or doing any of the fireworks that 15 yr old male students do. Marquise can hold space. Every time I think about my classroom, I think about Marquise. He is…

Steve Wright, Stephen Wright and Stevie Wright University Department of Academia, Freedom Road May 15, 2021 (not updated Oct 28, 2023) Abstract: In this paper my co-authors and I are attempting to make sense of a world where entropy seems to have the upper hand. Empirically speaking, things fall apart. We…

The Effective Application of Pedagogy and Power The Pedagogy Axis This axis has an opinion. Care is better than Compliance. The simplest definition for the purpose of education is to nurture student agency. The purpose of education is to give students practice, feedback and opportunity for reflection on their decisions…

Artificial Intelligence, Teaching and Learning “The wizard of oz teaching in a classroom” generated by Substack’s AI I believe there is a significant danger in the coming Artificial Intelligence revolution but I don’t think it has anything to do with super-human robot overlords. It’s far more mundane than that. AI…

A reply to a post by board member Sam Davis Sam, thank you for the clear and thorough description of the strike. As an OUSD classroom teacher I appreciate having many of the details I didn’t know and it definitely feels like you are describing essentially the same reality that…

I have been teaching for 17 years. I taught for 10 starting in the 90’s. Then went to work in the tech industry for about 10 years and have been back in the classroom for the last 7 years. I have twin obsessions: adolescent development and transparent systems. I came…

Education is machine, contorting children into the shapes we want them to be. Education reform is drones complicitly operated from district offices dropping jargon on moss covered windmills that grind our children into dust. We need more Don Quixotes. More absurd romantics spewing fusillades of illogical Love at the cold…

Angel seemed angry. She looked at me without looking at me — more through than at — patient but wishing she didn’t have to be. …