Guest Blogger
Teacher
Chicago, Illinois
Ashley McCall serves as a third grade bilingual English language arts teacher at César Chávez Multicultural Arts Center on the southwest side of Chicago and a teacher representative on the Chávez Local School Council.
Monday night I sat on my back patio staring up into a rare, starry Chicago night. I squinted and made…
Across the entire United States, there aren’t nearly enough Black teachers inside classrooms. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, less than 7% of…
On March 13, 2020, when Governor Newsom shut down schools in California including in LAUSD where my son is now a senior, I held my…
There have been some good reasons to close schools over the past year—in the early days of the pandemic, for example, or during major weather…
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