Other Writing

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Feature Writing

• Salon, "Undoing Zionism: “A way to honor my ancestors”"
• YES! Magazine, "Veterans Push Back Against Military Recruitment in Schools"
• Current Affairs, "The “Uber-ification” of Teaching Will Destroy Public Education"
• Rethinking Schools, "Fatphobia Showed Up in My Classroom. Here's What I Wish I Had Done Differently."
• YES! Magazine, "To Transform Work, Start With School"
• The Washington Post, "Answer Sheet" "Why teachers should stop trying to hide their emotions in school"
• BRIGHT Magazine:
• "In Classroom Discipline, a Softer Approach is Harder Than it Looks"
• "A Haircut with a Side of Harry Potter"
• "Here's a Way to Help Teachers"
• "'He's Going to Send All the Black People Back to Africa': A classroom reacts to the presidential election"
•  "Should Teachers Talk Trump in Class?" 
• Brooklyn Magazine, "The Troublemaker: Zetta Elliott and the Future of Children's Literature"

Writing for Young People

• CommonLit, "Anthony Benezet: Teaching Kindness"
• CommonLit, "Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Comet"
• CommonLit, "John Brown: Fanatic for Justice"

Audio Writing

I have written dozens of episodes for the podcast "History Daily" including:

• "Kristallnacht - The Nazis' 'Night of Broken Glass'"
• "The Camilla Massacre"
• "The CIA Overthrows the Guatemalan Government
• "The Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370"
• "Hurricane Katrina Floods New Orleans"
  
• "The Signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act"
• "The Birth of the Tuskegee Airmen"
• "Cassius Clay Becomes Heavyweight Champion of the World"

News Writing

• eJewishPhilanthropy:
• "Jewish environmental organizations help Jews cope with ‘climate anxiety’"
• "A Jewish nonprofit is changing the way a Florida city responds to 911 calls"
• "Meet the Orthodox Jewish beekeeper who sent out 1,000 pounds of honey before Rosh Hashanah"
• "A Muslim high school class studied the Holocaust. Here’s what they learned.
• "How Jewish summer camps are dealing with the latest COVID-19 spike"
• US News & World Report:
• "Educating the Whole Child"
• "How to Teach Young People about Antisemitism"
• "Q & A: Teaching Racial Justice in Schools"
• "How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change"
• "What to Know About Unschooling"

Blogging

• Chalkbeat New York (formerly Gotham Schools)
• The Educator's Room
• Teacher2Teacher