Dear Educators…This is a Lot

A Swarthmore professor pens an open letter to Philadelphia teachers—heroes today even more than usual

By Jen Bradley

Love a Teacher?

Nominate them for Integrity Icon, and let the whole city celebrate them for going above and beyond their job

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

To Teach is to Breathe

Novelist and Penn Professor Lorene Cary’s Safe Kids Stories on the power of teaching, from current and future educators

By Safe Kids Stories
Week 8

Jason Kelce’s Eagles Education Season

This week, the Super Bowl-winning offensive lineman compares Philly schools to those of Buffalo—and celebrates a local education innovation

By Jason Kelce
Citizens Of The Week

Philly’s Teachers

It’s the last day of public school in Philly. Let’s give teachers a hand as they embark on their much-deserved summer break

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen Recommends

Blackademia

WURD hosts the top black academics from four area universities for a conversation about their impact and responsibility to the city around them

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal

Training teachers like doctors

Could a Michigan experiment to bring medical school-like training to the teaching of teachers make for better-prepared educators—and more successful students?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Teacher Colleges, We Need You To Step Up

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

By Sharif El-Mekki

The Elephant in the (Class)room

A public school principal argues that improving student outcomes requires improving teachers

By Hilderbrand Pelzer III

Arise, Black Men, and Teach

Only 4.5 percent of Philadelphia teachers are black men. A Mastery principal urges more to heed the call to help build a better nation

By Sharif El-Mekki