After a strange year of working in education during COVID-19, I decided to take a lot of time for myself this summer to rest, reflect, and dream. …

I’ve had my Ko-Fi for just a couple months now, and I am so grateful for the experiences I have had so far. …

The school year has wrapped up for San Francisco Unified School District. I’m sure that for many in my communities, for other teachers and for many of my students, it was one of the worst years on record. …

“Every day as a teacher, I am fighting for a world where my students get to explore and live in their wholeness.” — “Ms. Phan, to be honest, lately I’ve been scared to even go outside to take out the trash.” Even after a whole year of distance learning over Zoom, nothing really prepared me for the gut punch of reading that recent comment, which was sent to me privately from a young…

They say comparison is the thief of joy — it’s a thing I’m working on in therapy this year. My therapist very helpfully has pointed out that I have a tendency to immediately compare my experiences to those of other people’s, to try and give a ‘measured’ reaction to whatever…

I’ve been meditating a bit on Thich Nhat Hanh’s memoir, At Home in the World, which covered his early childhood through his days organizing fellow monks for Vietnamese liberation, to his exile and founding of Plum Village. In one chapter, Thay (the Vietnamese term for teacher, what we call Thich…

This week in US History, we’ve moved onto the Civil Rights Movement after a few weeks of covering Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era during our #BlackLivesMatter unit. Students have read Saidiya Hartman and Ida B Wells; they’ve analyzed primary sources on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. We briefly…

While I’m reflecting on the systemic racism that has led to my exploitation, I am also thinking about how the district keeps using “antiracist healing practices” as a center of the work during this pandemic, and how I keep seeing people from Central Office quote Bettina Love, author of We…

“There are many ways to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Silence is not one of them.” My sister recently wrote this introducing her own reflections on Accountability as an Ally in the movement for Black lives. …