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What the Republicans have used to fear-monger and rabble-rouse whites naturally signals what I’d like to take as a moment of hope for the U.S: the more we educate all people, most especially Black and peoples of color, the brighter our collective futures will be.
Read MoreMy attention escapes me again, how do these two white teachers know this? Is this story even real? They tell it with such relish, I somehow doubt the authenticity of the story. If it was real, this was not a funny story.
Read MoreThis GWM writes with a nostalgia for the charter school “reform coalition” movement that is as dangerous as it is factually incorrect (again, if only we actually taught CRT in schools).
Read MoreThe brand new N.S.F.S segment Tales from the White Savior Crypt, featuring our favorite GWW and GWM of the week.
Read MoreNot Safe for School’s intern Abs (Abigail Wilson) takes the mic with a conversation about social-emotional learning and critical race theory, why Ron Desantis should never be president and the math problems that started it all. Includes teacher resources for SEL in the classroom including its benefits, and what teachers can do now to boost it.
Read MoreNot only is the bill unconstitutional, but it has a direct impact on LGBTQ student safety and paves the way for every conservative lawmaker across the country to enforce similar legislation.
Read MoreI do and always have found it exhilarating to teach teenagers, which is why people's reactions surprised me. Their little hormone-filled minds are hilarious, engaged, and inquisitive. I talk about Bell Hooks' Teaching to Transgress and the white savior mindset of teachers. About Black culture, and Black love.
Read MoreSubstitutes, like adjunct professors, are cheap and expendable labor. I talk about going bankrupt for one lost cause in education and jumping into the flames. About white saviors, corrupt urban charter schools, subbing, TTeju Cole, Emma Brown, and Soraya Chemlay.
Read MoreSince the pandemic and deciding not to return to the classroom, my activism has taken another form. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about coalition building in relation to Fred Moten and Stefano Harney and restorative justice.
Read MoreI read Teaching to Transgress again when I decided to toss my hat in the ring of an urban high school teacher. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about coalition building in relation to Fred Moten and Stefano Harney and the different forms her educational activism has taken.
Read MoreI express my gratitude to my subscribers and continue the dialogue of whiteness, racism, and systemic exploitation. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about her elevator pitch for her upcoming collection of stories about the reality of inequity, and white saviors in education.
Read MoreThere is absolutely no way the adjunct crisis won’t evolve, at least in some small way. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about some fundamental questions that have her thinking about the future of Not Safe for School and what she should be fighting for.
Read MoreThis week I’m wondering about the role listening plays in our empathy skills and in our own personal growth. Wtf does it even mean to listen to yourself, much less someone else? It’s the subject of many self-help books, and is something we most likely take for granted in the education field, or honestly, everywhere in our lives.
Read MoreWhy is it that students have to wade through the bull$hit of public education to get a college degree? Dr. Allison Harbin writes about conversations with past students, the difficulty of being a teen during a pandemic, and the importance of students' experiences.
Read MoreI knew exactly when I needed to begin writing my book. It wasn't the pandemic, instead, it was what I had seen at a corrupt urban charter school set for closure. Dr. Allison Harbin talks about writing, her approach, and how she has come to name NSFS in the context of activism.
Read MoreAs Paul Simon says, “when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can hardly breathe at all.” Dr. Allison Harbin writes about the varying intensity of collective trauma, and the pandemic as a living example in this Not Safe for School post.
Read MoreBy facilitating the self-liberation of a Black woman, you liberate yourself. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about what happens when you facilitate the self-liberation of a Black woman and BIPOC representation in the state of education.
Read MoreI am becoming increasingly convinced that the Civil Rights movement did not have the transformative change that some think it did. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about investing in the complex progression of higher and secondary education since the 1970s.
Read MoreI talk about the struggle of distance learning during the pandemic, its weird silver lining, and the reality of my students' lives during the pandemic. Dr. Allison writes, in lieu of the (almost) one-year anniversary of when COVID took over the United States.
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