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At five years old, our son Trey, now age 14, was diagnosed with Autism and mixed-expressive language disorder. Long before that, I had suspected
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Know your why, and it will sustain you.Dr. Adam Saenz When I read this quote from Dr. Adam Saenz, licensed psychologist and author, it resonated
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I was always a good student — I did very well academically. Every nine weeks, we had these standardized tests for the state. I would always place
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While America’s student body has grown more diverse over time, the teachers working with them have remained overwhelmingly white. While 47% of
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Each of us has been that lone, righteous educator at the dinner party—that overzealous, overtired reality-checker among adults whose jobs don’t
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Before taking a much needed vacation at the end of last year, I wrote a piece talking about how education for Black kids cannot look the same as it
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I vividly remember my middle level principal and the fear that hit my gut every time he would look at me or even walk by. He was six and a half feet
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One of the most difficult things to navigate as a school administrator is discipline. How do you help students understand that their behavior is not
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Detention has been around for as long as I can remember, and some of us—myself included—have served a detention or two when we were students.
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We lead busy lives as administrators, with items getting added daily to our already busy to-do lists. How do we keep up? Why not use the power of