South Carolina Teacher of the Year Wants His Students to ‘Change and Shift the World’
South Carolina Teacher of the Year Deion Jamison discusses his student-centered approach to teaching high school students and why teacher retention matters.
Jessica Fregni
Writer-Editor, One Day
Season 2, Episode 1: The Purest Form of Activism
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from The Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia about how to create safe spaces that value and invest in young Black leaders.
Hosted by Jonathan Santos Silva
In This Vision of Education, Students Are Empowered to Love Learning and Themselves
Ebony Payne Brown is working to open a charter school in Atlanta with rigorous academics, where students feel loved and their identities are celebrated.
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz
Managing Director, Film + Video Projects
Marquita Brown
Senior Editor, One Day Digital
How Afrocentric Lessons Teach Black Kids to Love Themselves
K-12 students typically learn about history through a lens that erases or minimizes the contributions of people of color.
Joseph Edelin
Public Speaker and Educator
Supporting Black Students’ Wellness Amid Mounting Challenges
School leaders share how they’re supporting Black youths’ mental health and wellness.
Working With My Hands Is My Self-care
A Black educator who has taught for almost 30 years explains the importance of self-care for K–12 teachers.
The Crushing and Inequitable Burden of Student Debt
What would it take to solve the $1.6 trillion student debt crisis?
Jerry Wolford and Scott Muthersbaugh / Perfecta Visuals
Photographer
The Loans That Steal Dreams
A recipient of Robert F. Smith's landmark donation to Morehouse College’s class of 2019 offers his perspective on how student loans deter millennials from pursuing their career aspirations and deepen the wealth gap in America.
Carlos Outten
Contributing Writer
The Path to Top STEM Careers for Black Men Starts in K–12 Classrooms
A lack of representation of Black men as math teachers also signals to Black students that careers in science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM—are also not for them.
Artemus Werts
Principal In Residence, Foundation Academies
The Future of Policy & Education in the Black Community
The TFA Editorial Team