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Jul
21

A graduate of NYC schools, this is my story.

A graduate of NYC schools, this is my story. Throughout elementary school, I would come home, change out of my uniform, open my workbook on a child-size wooden table, complete my assignments, and bring the book to my mom. Only after she rigorously double-checked my work could I plant myself down in front of the […]

By John Russo | Blog . news
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Aug
26

I am an elementary school educator, and I embrace critical race theory.

From Chalkbeat: My lessons center on my students’ lives and stories. As a new teacher in Arizona 20 years ago, I found myself in the middle of a campaign against bilingual education. Arizona voters had recently passed Proposition 203 restricting bilingual education and English as a Second Language instruction, as it was called then, following […]

By John Russo | news
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Aug
12

My students thrived last year because they weren’t policed (The COVID era showed us why punitive policies don’t work

From Chalkbeat: A couple of years back, one of my students, a fifth grader, had an emotional outburst that led him to leave the classroom and run around the school. There was no plan in place for how we, as teachers and administrators, would handle a crisis like this.  It ended with adults chasing the […]

By John Russo | news
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