Kelly Wickham Hurst, Author at TueNight.com

Kelly Wickham Hurst

Kelly Wickham is a social activist who does that work in a middle school as an administrator, as a writer, and as a speaker. She writes about education, race, and being a single teenage mom. Kelly has a combined family that includes 6 adult offspring. Her writing has appeared in Yahoo!, Huffington Post, and she's been a guest on NPR. You can follow Kelly on Twitter at @mochamomma.

Culture

Being Black at School: A Teacher Creates a Better Classroom

By Kelly Wickham Hurst

I was born in Chicago, raised on the south side and Hyde Park, and finished high school in the south suburbs. My upbringing was so diverse that there didn’t appear… Read More

Culture

The Most Important Part of My Job

By Kelly Wickham Hurst

As a Guidance Dean at a middle school in Illinois, my office life is very different from what it used to be when I was a classroom teacher. Meetings, phone… Read More

Culture

Like Crickets to Fireworks: Blogging About Race

By Kelly Wickham Hurst

(Graphic: Helen Jane Hearn/TueNight.com) My first taste of online publishing, in 2005, was inspired by a now-defunct blog written by a teacher in Chicago. She wrote about her classroom and… Read More