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Rebecca Berlin Field
Rebecca Berlin Field

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Sep 12

Healthy brains +curiosity = learning

We have a reading crisis in our district. I teach high school in a comprehensive school in our segregated city. My students come to class struggling to read. Obviously this is a complex issue, but we are not going to solve illiteracy by continuing to undervalue our students and families…

Education Equity

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Education Equity

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Jun 26

Advice for Diverse Books Seekers

If you’ve never tried to publish a book, you are probably not familiar with the term ‘Diverse Voices’. According to Harper Collins, a prominent US publishing company, Diverse Voices refers to “all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA+, Native, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and…

Justice

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Advice for Diverse Books Seekers
Advice for Diverse Books Seekers
Justice

6 min read


Oct 15, 2022

The Imagination Gap

One of the first discussions I have with my art students each year is about the meaning of the word “art”. I ask them to come up with their own definitions and I am always astounded by their responses. One student in particular this year blew me away: “Art is…

Justice

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The Imagination Gap
The Imagination Gap
Justice

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Sep 15, 2022

Swagger-like but not

Most of my students have not seen Swagger, the Apple TV+ show that has been filming at our school for a few weeks. The plot centers around a Black teenager, growing up in public housing, who has the potential to be a basketball star if he can learn to heal…

Apple TV

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Swagger thoughts
Swagger thoughts
Apple TV

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Aug 26, 2022

An open letter to parents from a teacher

***This letter is dedicated to Ms. York, Ms. Brockman, Ms. Fought, Mr. Owenby, Ms. Williams, Ms. Vermillion, Mr. Garber, Mr. Clark, Mr. Gaskins, Ms. Hein-Sadler, Mr. V, Ms. Siebers, Vic, Brigette, Clary, Emily, Caroline, Lorah, and every public school educator who has loved, supported, and tolerated my children. Dear fellow…

Public Education

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An open letter to parents from a teacher
An open letter to parents from a teacher
Public Education

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May 26, 2022

Here we are again

This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. -Langston Hughes, 1938 The last two nights, I’ve read Harry Potter…again (The Prisoner of Azkaban, to be exact)…

School Shootings

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School Shootings

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Jan 8, 2022

A Teacher Gives the Tea.

A Teacher Gives the Tea. I’ve figured out what is wrong but it’s going to take a while to explain so bear with me. I’ve been teaching public high school for 20 years. I have 2 teenage children of my own…I think I can qualify for teenage expert status. School…

Education

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Education

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Jun 10, 2021

The Way the Story is Told

Last night I had the pleasure of listening to an online discussion between Ibram X. Kendi and Clint Smith. Clint Smith has been a favorite poet of mine for several years and he has just published his first work of prose, How the Word is Passed. I listened to the…

Education

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The Way the Story is Told
The Way the Story is Told
Education

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Jan 13, 2021

Giving Space to learn about Hate

Teachers and students and all Americans are still recovering from last week’s Capitol’s assault. My high school students and I have had several conversations about the events of January 6th in the past week. We’ve spoken about the anger that we’ve experienced in the past few days, and many students…

Anti Semitism

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Anti Semitism

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Jun 19, 2020

Rumors of War, the war, and how it can end.

Six months ago, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, VA, dedicated Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War, its newest acquisition, and installed it in front of the Museum along Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The monumental equestrian sculpture of a Black man, proud and contemplative, turns his head North, towards Monument…

Monuments

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Rumors of War, the war, and how it can end.
Rumors of War, the war, and how it can end.
Monuments

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Rebecca Berlin Field

Rebecca Berlin Field

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