” If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” Marian Wright Edelman But how? I awoke with a mighty feeling of responsibility about change, about my power in the world…and then I got out of … More If you don’t like the world the way it is…
Freedom is a funny thing. It’s for us all…and it’s not free. Many of us work hard for our freedom in America. Teachers do. They step into classrooms every day and teach children to be civil to one another. They help children be their best. They encourage children to do the hard things, for they … More “Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ” ― Emma Lazarus
Zumbi dos Palmares fought for his people’s liberation from the Portuguese slave trade. I am a teacher. I have worked as a preschool director, a principal, an assistant principal, a lower school principal, and a general studies principal, but first and foremost my career has called me to teach. One of the toughest things I … More Read “The 1619 Project,” a history of enslaved people in the United States.
