Guest Blogger
Dean of Students, Baker College Prep
Chicago, Illinois
Sean Healy is dean of students at Baker College Prep and a Teach For America alum. Previously he taught high school English for five years, three of them at Baker.
From the jump of my educational career I’ve always identified with the troubled students, the outcasts and troublemakers. I gravitate…
Last year I went from managing students in the classroom to managing adults. That shift was just as hard as…
My favorite superhero—Batman—is a failure. And if young educators take Batman as our role model, we’re likely to fail, too.…
Three years ago this September, Marquise* walked in on the opening day of school at Baker College Prep and carried…
Reyna Morales lives in Oakland, California, and is the parent of two students at a high-performing charter school located in an area with a dearth…
“I am a white ally,” the 30 something-year-old white teacher declared emphatically in the diversity and inclusion professional development session. She snapped her fingers to…
A month ago, as Amanda Gorman shared her beautiful prose during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration, students at KIPP Rise Academy in Newark had…
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