A Teacher’s Coming Out Story 25Mar2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez Most LGBT teachers still feel they have to conceal their sexual orientation. A few years ago, 5th-grade teacher Jessica Lifshitz decided to stop hiding.
Talking About Race in School: An Interview with José Vilson 3Dec2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez Race-related issues impact all of us, inside school and out. How can we have productive, healthy conversations with students about these issues?
Know Your Terms: Code Switching 19Jun2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez Correcting nonstandard dialects doesn’t really help students learn to speak or write in formal English. So should teachers just let kids talk (and write) how they want?
How We Pronounce Student Names, and Why it Matters 14Apr2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez Mutilating someone’s name is a tiny act of bigotry. Whether you intend to or not, what you’re communicating is this: Your name is different. Foreign. Weird. It’s not worth my time to get it right.
