Voice: Sharif El-Mekki

As her Mastery-Shoemaker principal attests, the high schooler benched from basketball because of her hijab is a freedom fighter for our times

A Mastery high school principal who is both a gun owner and gunshot victim on why guns in schools makes kids less safe

A Mastery principal who boycotted the NFL this year is grateful to the Eagles—for helping him demonstrate that activism matters

A Mastery high school principal says the civil rights leader may have begun with integration—but that’s not where he landed

In honor of National Principals Month, Mastery Shoemaker’s leader lays out the 12 lessons he’s learned to do the job well

A Mastery principal and advocate hosts a conference to bring together—and grow—the ranks of black teachers

A Mastery charter school principal calls out his anti-charter friends for denying choice—but only for black students

A Mastery principal and organizer sees progress—and much work to do—in his efforts to recruit effective black male teachers

A high school principal who was a child in Iran reflects on what immigrant and refugee students need most: an education that embraces their difference

Education schools fail to properly train would-be teachers. A Mastery principal challenges them to do better—or risk failing students, too