Ask any parent and they’ll tell you they want their child to go to a good school. But ask them what makes a good school, and how do we decide what’s good, and that’s where all sorts of different...
A few weeks ago, I visited the classroom of Stefan Lawrence, a high school English teacher at Carver High School in Columbus, Georgia. Although I only had the privilege of sitting in his class for a...
D.C. Public Schools is having a moment. Last month, reporters found out a lot of kids graduated from their high schools that shouldn’t have—mostly for truancy issues. The same school district that’s...
In their final essay of first semester, students in Luke Dennison’s ninth-grade English class at Riverside High School used “The Odyssey” and Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology” to analyze archetypes in the...
As parent leaders, we need to build trust, inspire hope and move people to action. Personal stories are one of the most powerful ways to do this. They are how we communicate our shared values and...
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