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Matthew R. Morris
Matthew R. Morris

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7 hours ago

Teaching is an Act

This new role that I am taking on this school year has caused me to do a lot of thinking. In past years I’ve spent the last bits of summer considering fresh activities that will engage my incoming students. …

Eduucation

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Teaching is an Act
Teaching is an Act
Eduucation

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3 days ago

Zen and the Art of Driver’s Ed

This should in no way be connected to that great body of factual information connected to the art of Zen. It is not very factual on Driver’s Ed practice, either. This is actually about teaching. The first time I drove a car I was 12 years old. My father travelled to Jamaica for his father’s…

Education

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Zen and the Art of Driver’s Ed
Zen and the Art of Driver’s Ed
Education

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Aug 7

Immigrant Words

What does it mean to be a Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother raised on Indigenous land? I’ve asked myself this without letting the question resonate with me. My fears of using the word immigrant when describing my father felt fake. But it’s true by meaning. My dad came to Canada when he was sixteen or eighteen or twenty, somewhere around there, and I didn’t care to…

Anti Racism

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Immigrant Words
Immigrant Words
Anti Racism

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Oct 19, 2022

Media Literacy: I’m Still Stuck on Selfies

“They could care less about the Z pattern in paper ads. Now they all wanted to know if their teacher had a Facebook. Maybe, I thought, I should have just brought newspapers.” I had no clue how to teach Media Literacy to middle schoolers so I started with something I…

Education

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Media Literacy: I’m Still Stuck on Selfies
Media Literacy: I’m Still Stuck on Selfies
Education

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Sep 20, 2022

Who Am I?

I was walking home after school one day in grade twelve and felt like I was doing everything wrong. Another football season without a championship or an MVP or any local recognition just finished. Again. More importantly, another season without any interest from division one college programs. Plus the batteries…

Black Men

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Who Am I?
Who Am I?
Black Men

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Aug 24, 2022

Those Last Three Years

Teaching through a pandemic makes no one a better educator. It may have made some more resourceful, more attuned to the social and emotional needs of human beings, more thoughtful about their pedagogy. But a better teacher? Those last three years could not have done that. In order to teach…

Education

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Those Last Three Years
Those Last Three Years
Education

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May 30, 2022

I’m Getting Used To This

All year, I had trouble getting used to this again. Every school day felt like a winter Monday — tired before the day even started and empty by the time you returned home. As the seasons changed, I used external sources to keep me propelling forward. Shooting hoops after school…

Education

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I’m Getting Used To This
I’m Getting Used To This
Education

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May 16, 2022

Survive And Advance

You would think I would be so used to the sound of my morning alarm that it would no longer be able to jolt me out of my sleep. But it still does. You would think that because I’d awaken at the same time so many weekdays and weeks in…

Teaching

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Survive And Advance
Survive And Advance
Teaching

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May 3, 2022

An Ode to Hip Hop

The hip hop albums I’ve listened to, from Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle to Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly, have taught me more valuable life lessons and offered more insight into my world than any education I received in school. In school, I learned other things — learned how to read, write…

Hip Hop

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An Ode to Hip Hop
An Ode to Hip Hop
Hip Hop

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Mar 30, 2022

Will Smith, Ain’t No Way

I just finished texting a friend about how dope it was to see the old Aunt Viv and Aunt Vy from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the latest episode of the reboot, Bel-Air. My Sunday was complete: I had already cooked and cleaned, packed tomorrow’s lunch, transferred the last…

Oscars

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Will Smith, Ain’t No Way
Will Smith, Ain’t No Way
Oscars

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Matthew R. Morris

Matthew R. Morris

7.3K Followers

my new book: Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity and Belonging on pre-sale now. www.matthewrmorris.com

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