Amanda Gorman
Posted July 1, 2021
We Owe It to Our Students to Do Some Racial Justice Homework This Summer
This has been the longest year of my teaching career. Not literally, of course. Like many of you, I’ve worked about 200 days since last…
Posted Feb. 24, 2021
Meet Newark’s Own Amanda Gorman, Seventh Grade Poet Makayla Brown
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…
Posted Jan. 20, 2021
Amanda Gorman Is Climbing That Hill. Now if Only The Rest of Us Would Join Her.
Today at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman stole the show. Lady Gaga? J-Lo? Garth Brooks? No contest. This 22-year-old…
