

Parenting and Teaching in an Age of Anxiety
I know anxiety isn’t a new phenomenon. In high school I had a friend who spent the last days of summer throwing up amid waves of...


Cultivating Interest & Curiosity
Talking to members of Francis W. Parker’s Class of 2019 has been a love of mine since 2013, when they entered the school as 7th graders,...


Student Voice Matters (And they say community counts)
I’ve been to a variety of graduations. There are my own (preschool, high school, college—I have fondest memories of preschool, as it...


Wanted: Systems that Promote Courage
Regularly, when someone found out that I taught 12, 13, and 14 year olds, I would hear that I was courageous. I never particularly...