<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Screamlsl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Empowering Growth Through Inclusive Practices]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:22:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.theflipstream.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Who Counts as “Our Children”? The Wilmington Debate Everyone Should Be Watching]]></title><description><![CDATA[The standing-room-only crowd at Mount Pleasant Elementary last week made one thing unmistakable: a regional moral struggle is unfolding in Wilmington schools over who counts as our children, and who is left to bear the consequences of an education system deliberately designed, decades ago, to divide responsibility rather than share it. This is not just Wilmington’s problem. And we should be paying close attention. If you have not been following the school reform debate, here is the landscape....]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/who-counts-as-our-children-the-wilmington-debate-everyone-should-be-watching</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693c36b23fd6b1eb4d063422</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:51:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_d898dfa666b240769ed693d2e5e44375~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear It With Me: A Different Kind of Ask]]></title><description><![CDATA[We say “bear with me” all the time. It’s a familiar phrase, tucked into emails and apologies, muttered when we fumble our words or drop...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/bear-it-with-me-a-different-kind-of-ask</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6854e998e201378ffb7b57bc</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:41:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_e029ee20c2464146b46a0f032d1bf36a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's Got a Story: "What If the ‘Bad Ones’ Are Just Like Us?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once you get past all the talk about teaching styles and burnout, there’s one thing a lot of teachers don’t want to admit: they’re...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/everyone-s-got-a-story-what-if-the-bad-ones-are-just-like-us</link><guid isPermaLink="false">683e612113b054eec39a0601</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 03:35:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_9a187adb00fc48c3963e07a4d8fb6700~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kara Robinson Ate. But Many Still Missed the Message. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, you saw the video. A Black woman teacher—sharp and ready to risk it all—stands in front of the Prince George’s County Board of...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/kara-robinson-ate-but-many-still-missed-the-message</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68378e9b4adf81dd55efd5ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 12:40:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_c37dd43a198c44d0a5451de559ab5405~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vibe Check, Part 2: When They Erase the Curriculum, They Erase the Kid]]></title><description><![CDATA[The “mind your business” culture isn’t just a vibe. Unfortunately, it is directly connected to what the current president and his allies...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/copy-of-vibe-check-part-2-when-they-erase-the-curriculum-they-erase-the-kid</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6822142124d5391e7114b18e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 21:54:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_cfe055727962468a8507468f05afe430~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What If the Whole School Went to Therapy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the world of post-pandemic urban education, 2025 is giving a lot. It’s Giving Unhealed Institution It’s Giving: We Were Never Trained...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/what-if-the-whole-school-went-to-therapy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68220c2eaff4fe1f7730f889</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 15:34:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_f8d489e24d034c1e83f5cb070c39d653~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Letter to Failed Teachers. And to Taryn Elam, wherever you are, I’m sorry.]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s this strange, gutting thing that happens when you’ve spent years studying someone’s life — not in the abstract, but intimately...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/a-letter-to-failed-teachers-and-to-taryn-elam-wherever-you-are-i-m-sorry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6817ef0419b29b6e847b4863</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 13:44:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_c9df8d3aee184302a9c252f8bb70bd66~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vibe Check We Missed: When “Mind Your Business” Backfires]]></title><description><![CDATA[As an adolescent development and trauma researcher teaching college students for a while now, I am mindful of that invisible leap  young...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/the-vibe-check-we-missed-when-mind-your-business-backfires</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681620a5a29e0727124f39da</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 14:01:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_851e4a0a87414e168e5a2b57fffefecf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Wanted Order? Welcome to Chaos: The Dangerous Fantasy of Tough-on-Kids Discipline ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another day, another viral video of a school fight. This time, it’s a substitute teacher — a Black woman — brawling with a teenage girl...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/you-wanted-order-welcome-to-chaos-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-tough-on-kids-discipline</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680e4f2b70de5d5367c10cac</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:16:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_7fa51cc27bc9466f98167dde0bf748b8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excerpt from Book: The Forgotten Cost of De-Professionalizing Urban Teaching—and Why Public Education Still Deserves Our Deepest Investment]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been away for a while, deep in the work of writing two books. The first is a strictly academic study based on a three-year research...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/excerpt-from-book-the-forgotten-cost-of-de-professionalizing-urban-teaching-and-why-public-educatio</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67e55e8aea1d5ca74adbb7c7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:19:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_23ac93337960495f9bd5a1ea97424bc1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why some Black teachers reject “woke cred” and resent the white teachers who embrace it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theme 1. Firm Love The passage below from an interview with Deondra Clark (pseudonym) in 2023 illustrates the complicatedness of "woke"...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/why-some-black-teachers-reject-woke-cred-and-relatedly-sometimes-resent-the-white-teachers-who-e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">660302d153cd880d30b3e456</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:29:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_c430f5aca8e447af99b81e852faceb6c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Latest Study]]></title><description><![CDATA[So everyone knows I am writing a book, yeah? Here's a little more background.  I did not know what to expect in 2019 (when I first...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/my-latest-study</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65d8db7f30ae80b41c4eed17</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:07:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_6476ac043fac4c8eb6d4e0dd34184b69~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintaining a Blog is Ambitious and I Won't Promise Perfect Results]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maintaining a blog, yikes, pray for me. I love being out in the community, but my day job comes first. I will do my best to stay on top...]]></description><link>https://www.theflipstream.com/post/maintaining-a-blog-is-ambitious-and-i-won-t-promise-perfect-results</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65c66a921c5206d6d9b31551</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:58:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c929ea_e860258899c04068a5f001312c5346d5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marinda Harrell-Levy</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>