by Jonathan Osler Over my 20+ year career as a high school teacher and principal, university instructor in teacher education, parent organizer, and nonprofit leader, I developed facilitation practices that were engaging and equity-centered. But in March 2020, when Zoom took over my work world, I had to quickly pivot…

by Jonathan Osler A similar version of this essay originally ran in the San Francisco Chronicle At this moment, in math classrooms across California, students are asking themselves the same questions many of us asked ourselves when we were their age: Why do I need to learn this? How will…

by Jonathan Osler I never met Marlyn del Carmen Garcia, whose graduation portrait I stared up at with sadness for almost six years. My first day of student teaching in Brooklyn, New York, was on Sept. 11, 2001, the day Marlyn died on the 101st floor of the North Tower…

Carrying on the legacy of my former teacher, Bob Moses, with my own undergraduate STEM education students. — by Jonathan Osler, August 2021

by Jonathan Osler The Oakland Unified Board of Education is considering giving some families a so-called “Opportunity Ticket”, but the reality is that many children in Oakland — mine included — already have one. My family lives in the Peralta Elementary attendance zone, and my two daughters attend school there…