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Interview on With Good Reason, 2025
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Witnessing White Supremacy on the West Coast
Witnessing White Supremacy on the West Coast
An essay Witnessing White Supremacy on the West Coast An essay INTRODUCTION & CONTEXT I retired from my job in Ohio and uprooted my family to start a new phase of life in California almost four years ago. Only two of the five sons in our family were still living at home when we moved. Although now living in a state with more progressive politics than Ohio’s, the experiences of my Black sons…
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Excerpts from my chapter in the Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement (IGI Global )
Excerpts from my chapter in the Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement (IGI Global )
Chapter 18 pages 380-404 Re-Mediating Narratives: Exceptional Children in Captivity Page 380 ABSTRACT This chapter draws from the experiences of a veteran educator teaching and learning with youths in a public high school located within a juvenile detention center between 2014-2018. Integrating the discourse of five young people who graduated from high school while in the juvenile detention…
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Excerpts from my chapter in Radically Dreaming: Illuminating Freirean Praxis in Turbulent Times (DIO Press)
Excerpts from my chapter in Radically Dreaming: Illuminating Freirean Praxis in Turbulent Times (DIO Press)
Coming soon! From Chapter 26… pages 290-292 … When transitioning from the public area of the juvenile (in)justice center tothe secure detention area the visual contrast is stark and harsh. All hues of color are assaulted and consumed by a complete whitewashing of the floors, furnishings, walls, and ceilings. No natural lighting filters through the thick, solid block walls, which leaves only the…
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The Rick Smith Show from 3-14-2017
The Rick Smith Show from 3-14-2017
The Rick Smith Show for 3-14-2017 The approximately 15-minute interview with Melissa begins at 1:23:30 and ends at 1:37:00. March 14, 2017 David Yankovich, writers and political commentator joins Rick to talk about the growing threat to our national security by the Trump administration as they cut the budget of Coast Guard and make the world less safety and stable by having a climate denier as…
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Removing "Management" from Classrooms and Schools
Removing “Management” from Classrooms and Schools
This essay appeared on the Forum of the American Journal of Education website on August 29, 2021. The youngest of the five children in our family spent the end of his first year of high school and all of his second year of high school “attending” school each day by logging into virtual classroom spaces. Unlike his older brothers, the youngest has a strong dislike for schooling yet he has always…
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Family Student Housing Costs across the UCs
Family Student Housing across 9 UCs - There is a wide range in rents for a 2-bedroom/1-bathroom unit ($906-$2947) and a wide range in amenities (some have pools, spas, & free laundry!) across the UC system. #COLA4all payusmoreucsc.com
The photo was taken from a balcony in UCSC Family Student Housing. It was submitted to the chancellor’s photo contest in November and a winner was never announced.
This data was compiled from the family student housing websites of each of the UCs in February of 2020.
The wide range of rents charged by the University of California (UC) Regents (that is the name that goes on the check if you pay…
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Standardized Testing Opt-Out Letter California, 2019
Standardized Testing Opt-Out Letter California, 2019
Well friends/co-conspirators, unfortunately, it is that time of the school year again when we must show our solidarity for visions of educational justice and the schools all of our children deserve. Refuse to allow your children to participate in the spirit-killing test industry machine – opt your child out. Many more resources can be found online, but here is the template for the letter I used…
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Is UC Santa Cruz selling infants and toddlers to a cesspool of injustice while claiming to fight injustice?
UC Santa Cruz wants parents to give their money for childcare to Bright Horizons, which will enrich Bain Capital. Bain Capital will continue to fund unjust initiatives many of us at UCSC will spend the majority our lives fighting.
Is UC Santa Cruz selling infants and toddlers to a cesspool of injustice while claiming to fight injustice?
One of the reasons I applied to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) was because of the commitment to social justice that the university boldly proclaimed and embraced with slogans like the one on the side of the campus bike-bus: “UCSC, the original…
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The Fifth Thing I Learned From Kids in Jail
The Fifth Thing I Learned From Kids in Jail The possibility of a better approach and more equitable means of caring for kids tantalizes me.
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
– Ida Tarbell
The following is part of a series titled “10 Things I Learned From Kids in Jail.” This is the fifth thing I learned. You can find the introduction, the first thing, the second thing, the third thing and the fourth thing on my blog in previous posts.
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The Fifth Thing I Learned
Once you know…
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The 4th Thing I Learned from Kids in Jail
The 4th Thing I Learned from Kids in Jail Everyone needs love, but love isn’t all we need. My first year at the detention center began with a cohort of young men in my class who claimed membership in a gang called...
The following is part of a series titled “10 Things I Learned From Kids in Jail.” This is the fourth thing I learned. You can find the introduction, the first thing, the second thing, and the third thing on my blog in previous posts. I know it has been a few months since I posted and I appreciate your patience.
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I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions…
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The following is part of a series titled “10 Things I Learned From Kids in Jail.” This is the third thing I learned. You can find the introduction, the first thing and the second thing on my blog in previous posts. Thanks for reading!
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama
The Third Thing I Learned
Anyone can choose to be a…
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The 2nd Thing I Learned From Kids in Jail
The 2nd Thing I Learned From Kids in Jail
The following is part three of a series titled “!0 Things I Learned from Kids in Jail (& You Can Too). The introduction and the first thing I learned are also available on my blog.
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”– Lena Horne
The Second Thing I Learned
No matter what happens, show them a smile.
As an educator at a county juvenile detention center,…
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The First Thing I Learned: Where you come from and where you are, does not have to determine where you are going.
The First Thing I Learned: Where you come from and where you are, does not have to determine where you are going.
The following is part two of a series titled “10 Things I Learned from Kids in Jail (& You Can Too). Last Sunday I posted the introduction.
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The First Thing I Learned
Where you come from and where you are, does not have to determine where you are going.
I am not one of those time-honored educators, who knew seemingly from their conception that they wanted to teach.…
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Introduction to "10 Things I Learned from Kids in Jail (& You Can Too)"
Introduction to “10 Things I Learned from Kids in Jail (& You Can Too)”
The following is the introduction to a series of ten additional sections revealing what I learned while employed as an educator at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center (CCJDC) in Cleveland, Ohio.
The lines between good and evil, justice and injustice, virtuous and unvirtuous, and consequential and inconsequential were never more undefined and indistinct than the four years I…
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We must all remind each other of our innate worth as living beings on this planet, and seek the humanity that connects us. When he stood up to sharpen his pencil at the sharpener on the cart directly in front of my desk, he spoke unprompted softly and reflectively while he gazed blankly at the classroom wall.
Women's March in Cleveland,Ohio,1-20-18
Before I go, I plead with all of you to remain vigilant and diligent in the fight for our public schools. Liberty and justice for all depend upon it.
I made the following remarks at the Women’s March in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 20th, 2018. I was honored to be part of an amazing series of speakers.
Before I begin, I’d like to take a moment to honor the Erie Indians who lived on this land long before any of us arrived. They were an Iroquoian tribe of the northeastern woodlands, who spoke an Iroquoian language similar to Huron and Seneca. As…
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