Chalk Face, PhD
Shaun Johnson blogs as Chalk Face, PhD, at Schools Matter @ the Chalk Face. He is a teacher educator and former elementary teacher. Shaun earned his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Indiana University and researches and publishes about gender in education, social studies, and education reform.
Starting small in the very early days of 2010, the original "@ the Chalk Face" blog has expanded to include a host of new authors/commentators, a broad social media presence, and a weekly radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They endeavor to establish an alternative space to discuss education reform from an entirely progressive perspective, with daily writings in defense of public education from more than a dozen educators. It merged with the website "Schools Matter" in April 2013 to become "Schools Matter @ the Chalk Face." It ceased operations as of January 2015.