Stuff We Love
Outside, Inside Curriculum: A Resource for Reflective & Strengthened Literacy at Home and at School
The Outside, Inside Curriculum, co-created by author/illustrator LeUyen Pham and educator Kass Minor, and sponsored by The Author Village, includes rich conversation, and multimodal activities to help caregivers and educators develop a foundational landscape for engaging [...]
Equity Team Development: Progression Tool
While working towards equity within a school community, it can be hard to know where to begin, and it's easy to get lost one you start. This four page progression tool (linked at the bottom [...]
For All Those Who Participate in Schools
CLICK HERE TO VIEW GUIDE Throughout the Co-VID 19 era, all communities of people on Earth have been exposed to a collective trauma that few generations of humans have met. It has been painful. [...]
5 Black Role Models for This Week… #31DaysIBPOC
Hello family, I am so honored to be part of the #31DaysIBPOC Blog Challenge this year... Today's "post" is a video that you can watch here: 5 Black Role Models for This Week! https://youtu.be/ewYCfc7bv0o [...]
Black Boys and White Educators
New Blog Post by Kass for Heinemann Publishing--Medium "If you are white, and your students identify as persons of color, be aware of that dynamic. I am white, and this is a thing, and it [...]
A Public Facing Revision: “Are We in the Ed?”: A Case for Building Student Driven Learning Identity to Dissolve the Social Stigma of Special Education
[A very old chapter I wrote circa 2009 during my fourth year of teaching for a book that never got published on Inclusive Education.] Revised in red (by me) 10 years later. By Kass [...]
Work Hard and Work Together: Building an Ethos of Care in an Elementary School Math Classroom
By Kass Minor [in Matt Silverman’s Classroom], circa Fall 2018 *From Human Teachers Series © all IP rights reserved Perfection is boring. We are Ish! We are problem solvers in life. And We will… Be Kind. [...]
Anthem for A Teacher: Good Teaching, Step 1
By Kass Minor, circa 2017 [Present thoughts: I am pretty sure I wrote this after a heated reflection on the Danielson Framework, Teacher Evaluation, and the flatness of distilling good teaching into a series of [...]
District 7, NYC DOE, The Bronx, #BronxStrong
Cornelius teamed up with long time friend and fellow activist-educator-school leader-WWE/Wakanda/ComicBook enthusiast Marcus Harden to work with teachers and school leaders from Distric 7 in the Bronx. The combination of Cornelius's fun and fierce literacy [...]
Central Berkshire Regional School District
The Minor Family celebrated their last summer hurrah in beautiful Central Berkshire County. Folx at CBRSD were so thoughtful-from providing coffee and warming Kass and Cornelius with feedback and reflection, Laurie and Leslie's people felt [...]
Everyone likes to hear Cornelius do a Read Aloud!
https://soundcloud.com/heinemannpublishing/intro-revised We Got This is now available via audiobook!! Listen while you commute, do the laundry, need a calming voice, or need some grounding to get ready for the new school year. Click above to hear [...]
Noblesville, Indiana
Cornelius and Kass built an institute with Noblesville leaders called All Means All: Leadership Without Walls. They even got to interview community members a la' talk show style! The folx of Noblesville demonstrated the kind [...]
