During this music concert, tucked into my favorite back-row aisle seat, I’m carried away by these high schoolers’ earnest 1960s…
The Wider Circle
The first time I set foot in my daughter’s kindergarten classroom is the morning after the Uvalde school shooting. Because…
In teaching, we’re in the very business of kids leaving us. Often we get them for one year –sometimes, if…
Dignity is not a zero sum game. There is an endless supply of dignity pie.
“Joy — it’s not just a gift. In a sense it’s also a duty, a task to fulfill.” (from Astonishments…
Lately, the world has been opening up here in our corner of Los Angeles, and I’ve been crying, a lot.…
On New Year’s Day in 2020, I was in Shanghai with my family. We watched the ball drop in New…
A recent issue of Time magazine launched the new “Kid of the Year” recognition. Along with this year’s selection of…
We’ve had more than 250 days of Covid madness if you start the count on Friday, March 13, 2020. In…
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the verb to belong as “feeling happy or comfortable in a situation.” In my own life,…
When my grandmother found out I was pregnant, she urged me to spend the summer in Georgia with family. She…
I think I always knew that I was not smart like the other kids in school; I was smart in…
Google’s education evangelist said at a conference in San Francisco in 2016, stop asking kids what they want to be…
