It will take a village to open schools safely.
Resources for Creating Equality in the Classrooms and the World
As a teacher dedicated to educational equity, I’ve become painfully aware of how much I still have to learn about racism in our country, and how I must actively work to prevent racism from ever rearing its ugly head in my classroom.
As a teacher dedicated to educational equity, I’ve become painfully aware of how much I still have to learn about racism in our country, and how I must actively work to prevent racism from ever rearing its ugly head in my classroom.
How to Teach Your Kids When You Have No Idea What You’re Doing
Thanks to COVID-19, just about every household in our country has just become an experiential learning classroom.
Thanks to COVID-19, just about every household in our country has just become an experiential learning classroom.
How I Learned to Get Out of My Own Way as a Teacher
By experiencing the work in a radically unfamiliar context, with a group of inmates unafraid to go straight to the heart of the matter and make the story their own, I was able to rediscover its power and relevance for myself.
By experiencing the work in a radically unfamiliar context, with a group of inmates unafraid to go straight to the heart of the matter and make the story their own, I was able to rediscover its power and relevance for myself.
I Have a Dream (of a Different Kind of Classroom)
I dream of a classroom where students and reality collide, where knowledge is not just communicated but co-created.
I dream of a classroom where students and reality collide, where knowledge is not just communicated but co-created.
What Mandela Learned From War and Peace: How to Keep Hope Alive in Troubled Times
What he took from Tolstoy’s novel, above all, is a vision of fierce idealism in a broken world.
What he took from Tolstoy’s novel, above all, is a vision of fierce idealism in a broken world.
3 Critical Skills Every Student Needs to Change the World
There’s a cluster of skills that rarely get mentioned for college graduates. These are the abilities students must develop if they are to help heal our broken society.
There’s a cluster of skills that rarely get mentioned for college graduates. These are the abilities students must develop if they are to help heal our broken society.
Why Teachers Must Bring Humanity to the Classroom
At the heart of teaching is a transformation.
At the heart of teaching is a transformation.
To Teach Is to Love: Dostoevsky’s Message to Educators in Our Troubled Times
I’ve read these words from the final scene of The Brothers Karamazov countless times, and yet it was only recently that I understood them in an entirely new light.
I’ve read these words from the final scene of The Brothers Karamazov countless times, and yet it was only recently that I understood them in an entirely new light.
How I Found My Voice and Myself in War and Peace
How could I talk about what love and death and courage mean to Tolstoy without knowing what those things meant to me?
How could I talk about what love and death and courage mean to Tolstoy without knowing what those things meant to me?
Teaching Resilience Through Russian Literature
As the Russians understand so well, sorrow and frustration are often the price we have to pay for a fully engaged life.
As the Russians understand so well, sorrow and frustration are often the price we have to pay for a fully engaged life.
This Is What Happens When Things Fall Apart
“Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.” — War and Peace
“Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost;
but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”
— War and Peace
This Is How Homemade Wisdom for Troubled Times Can Help Us Now
My head spinning from the nonstop barrage of news—most of it bad, all of it “breaking”—and the general anxiety in the air.
My head spinning from the nonstop barrage of news—most of it bad, all of it “breaking”—and the general anxiety in the air.
Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times: Give War and Peace a Chance
"This is what it looks like to read the hell out of the book."
“This is what it looks like to read the hell out of the book.”
Crime and Enlightenment: Important Lessons Teens Teach Me About Life
Teens who take responsibility for their own mistakes, acknowledge the dysfunction in their lives, and desire to change it.
Teens who take responsibility for their own mistakes, acknowledge the dysfunction in their lives, and desire to change it.
The Inmate, The Student, And Tolstoy | Andrew Kaufman | TEDxCharlottesville
Through the lens of Russian literature, Andrew Kaufman and his students glean new insights into compassion, acceptance, and the shared human experience.
Through the lens of Russian literature, Andrew Kaufman and his students glean new insights into compassion, acceptance, and the shared human experience.