By: Dr. Lauren E. Burrow Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic I was online teaching elementary education majors from my home office while simultaneously co-teaching my own young children in our living room. After my department mandated a transition to 8-week courses in fall 2020, I felt like I no longer had the time nor mental capacity
Interrogating the Taken for Granted Role of High Stakes Testing By Rachel E. Williams The ongoing global pandemic works within the well-worn historical grooves of racial injustice at the nexus of various systems of oppression, which laid bare the ways that our current arrangements are unsustainable. These realities generate the potential for a more radical
By: Kristin Valle Geren One day in April, I hurried my fourth grade class upstairs after lunch to quickly take a bathroom break (there’s no time for that in a day jam-packed with required instructional minutes, especially when you work at a school consistently labeled as in need of improvement ) before our visitors arrived.
