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…
Outrage: Black Kids Are Dumb, Poor and Incapable of Success Do y’all remember the line from “The Color Purple,” “I’m poor, I’m Black…I may even…
My son is a freshman in high school and this felt like my first report card pick up all over again. While I have access…
As parents dropping our children off at school, many of us may wonder, will they have a good day? Will they do their best? Will…
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