Learning and studying the African roots of education is especially important right now, in a time when so much of our history is being thrown off the shelves, stripped from our lips, and threatened with erasure from the memory of our youth.

By Koren Clark July 1, 2020 "The first essential is that the teacher should go through an inner, spiritual preparation.” (Standing, 1998, p. 298). As much as I aim to spiritually prepare myself as a Black Montessori guide and as a mother of over 20 years, my work is never done. While it pleases me to witness the children I’ve nurtured take the lessons I’ve taught them and walk out into the world as adults. It pains me to usher them into a changed world wrought with biological viral and...

Last night I lost my breath. I could not pull it up from my lungs. I couldn’t access it from the base of my belly. My head spun.