Over the last month, our college’s Black Lives Matter at School book club has been reading the wonderful Gholdy Muhammad’s book Unearthing Joy. There are many, many things I love about this book and the way that it centers Black joy, culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning, and attending to children’s spirits as much […]
Month: April 2023
Holding Space for Ourselves, Holding Space for One Another
It’s been quite an AERA 2023. AERA ends my spring semester travel season and is the last of 5 conferences in 7 weeks. It has been a lot in this season, almost certainly too much. So now, before I head back home, I am taking a moment to pause and reflect. What is here for […]
Every New Beginning…
[Note: There’s an announcement in this post. I’ll bold it if this is tl/dr for you.] I quoted from Semisonic’s “Closing Time” as the title of a blog post at the end of my first semester as an Assistant Professor at CSULB. In that post, I talked about the challenges of mothering a 6-year old […]