Blog: Leading in the Belly of the Beast
386 Plastic Bags: A Story About Education and Community
I want to tell a story about educators in the time of COVID. It is a simple story about 386 clear plastic bags, filled with the hope and promise of education as community. It is the story of my school, ARISE High School, in Oakland, California — and it is the story of myriad schools and educators around the world building bridges toward learning...
Staying Restorative When the Rubber Meets the Road
It is all grey When it comes to school discipline, very little is black and white. Grey pervades like clouds in a November sky. The sneaky trick of punitive school discipline policies is that they make us believe that discipline can be black and white. They provide responses to student behavior that are simplistic and rigid. Consequently, they...