This is so great! I am always inspired by what you are doing Janine!

I’ve been hustling for as long as I can remember. My most elaborate and impressive hustle was created in high school to solve two major problems. First, I was broke. Second, my mother would not let me get a job. That all changed with $20 of Christmas money. I bought…

Part 1 — I took to LinkedIn recently with a series of posts titled “Things I want to see more of in education.” In my work, as someone who wants to see system level change in schools, my conversations are often about what is wrong and what we should see less of in…

What was the most memorable lecture from your K-12 school experience? Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Can’t remember? Me either. I think many of us can make the case that lecture sucks because it is boring. Unless your teacher was an extremely skilled communicator, who was also in tune with relevant…

I write things down often because I believe in the power of the spoken and written word. Writing, to me then, can be sacred. As I have grown as a person, I have become far busier. My time sometimes feels like it perpetually belongs to someone else. Between my career…

The intersection of Blackness, Patriotism, and Christianity — I am a Black man who lives in the United States of America. I am also a Christian who believes the Bible. The murder of George Floyd has caused, for me, a collision of these three identities that often leaves me in pain. What is Triple Consciousness? W. E. B Du Bois coined…

I believe there are three types of thinkers in education. There are the Rocks, the Challengers, and The Outer Edge thinkers. Rocks play by the rules. They love “best” practices and heavily support the traditional school system. Challengers often work inside of the traditional school system but think outside of…

The push to innovate a 100-year-old system — Education should never be the same after the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders end. Unfortunately, I’m afraid it will be the same. Even after COVID. When the smoke clears and we can all go outside again my greatest fear is that school goes back to business as normal. Because normal has not…

Why tech isn’t education’s savior — Right now the world’s eyes are on education. People are asking, watching, talking, sharing, thinking, wondering…waiting. Many parents and students for the first time are turning to technology to not just assist but to be the teacher. So much so that I have found myself even asking, “Is technology going…