First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education.
When the LA high school where I teach banned cell phones, I brought in a boombox and my CD collection. It’s changed the classroom dynamic.
The Detroit Free Press reported that the judge who had a Detroit student handcuffed for falling asleep in his courtroom during a field trip has been temporarily removed from his docket. He also has been ordered to undergo training.
Trump questioned Harris’ racial identity. Back in high school, my classmates considered my own.
Could Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick change how people see teachers? Educators hope so.
Our paid essay-writing fellowship for teens is returning to NYC and launching in Detroit.
Now I hope to amplify the experiences of students who struggled like I did.
Violence has shaped much of the nation’s trajectory, as almost every high school student knows.
Access to acceleration has long been wildly inequitable. Here’s what schools can do to reduce the financial and logistical barriers.
It’s important to teach 'hard history.' But we must also teach the 'hard present.'
Too often, educators of color are tracked into disciplinary roles and tapped to lead equity efforts. I’ve been there.
As of this past weekend, amid deadly political violence aimed at former President Trump, there had been nearly 300 mass shootings in America this year. Students like me are desperate for a safer future.
How do we make sure Chalkbeat is giving readers what they need? Audience engagement intern Owen Berg explains how he approaches this question.
School districts are eliminating diversity and equity roles. We’re not ready for the fallout.
I traveled to Malaysia to teach kids about photography. Here’s what I learned.
There’s already a blueprint for evaluation in the post-Regents era.
I rarely saw faces like mine in school books or on TV. It fueled my imposter syndrome.
An English teacher with no reporting background, I agreed to teach a high school journalism class. Here’s what I learned.
I am one of the thousands of NYC children who lost a parent to COVID. Here’s what I want you to know about my dad.
Amid rising antisemitism and a devastating war, I wondered how the community would respond to this unmistakably Jewish play.
People sometimes assume trans and nonbinary educators are correcting pronouns resentfully or talking about gender in age-inappropriate ways. The truth is far more mundane.