Jay Wamsted
Guest Blogger
Teacher
Atlanta, Georgia
RECENT POSTS
Posted Apr. 23, 2020
We Can’t Return to Status Quo When This Pandemic Is Over
Just by way of introduction, let me begin this post the way I have begun most conversations in the past…
Posted Mar. 31, 2020
Now Is the Perfect Time for White Teachers to Do ‘The Work’ of Anti-Racism
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, well, everything, but at times I find that I have more time to communicate, virtually…
Posted Mar. 23, 2020
The Inequity Between Students Isn’t New, COVID-19 Is Just Bringing It to Light
During World War II, riding out the Blitz in his native London, theologian and fantasy author C. S. Lewis wrote,…
Posted Jan. 6, 2020
27 Mistakes White Teachers of Black Students Make and How to Fix Them
A few years back, I was in my room meeting parents during an open house, just days before the school…
Posted Nov. 6, 2019
My Black Students Have Learned to Be Wary of People Who Look Like Me, And That’s Not Racist
Recently in class, my students and I were listening to Lil Nas X sing “Old Town Road,” for what felt…
