Charter School Cultures Humanities 
ED Surge
JULY 14, 2023
When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 28, 2024
However, human beings aren’t data points that can easily be changed and manipulated. To make real gains in creating inclusive schools, we need to go beyond just meeting goals and instead commit to making sometimes difficult choices and confronting uncomfortable truths to create a new world of standards. Does that sound hard?
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2021
This past year has forced schools to make significant changes to their practices. It has also prompted teachers and administrators to reimagine education and to rearticulate a new vision for their schools — as I’ve seen at “ no excuses ” charter schools, which I have spent the last decade studying and observing.
ED Surge
MARCH 17, 2022
In urban charter schools, SLANT has been used to manage behaviors. Remnants of this practice slowly trickled into public schools as teachers switched school districts. Conversely, schools began to embrace the work of Dr. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 25, 2023
One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented. One consideration is that BIPOC solution providers and developers likely possess deep community and cultural expertise but often lack the necessary access to share their solutions.
ED Surge
AUGUST 15, 2023
When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.
ED Surge
AUGUST 2, 2023
In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. Although the setting is the 1930s Jim Crow South, many students were able to make a connection to this human experience.
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