Social Emotional Learning
High-Value, Low-Functioning Teachers Have Always Existed in Our Classrooms
Over the past few days, multiple viral clips from recent episodes of NFL star Cam Newton’s “Funky Friday” podcast and Nick Cannon’s “Counsel Culture” podcast have flooded the news feeds of my social...
School Choice
Education Department Debate Is About Creating Anti-LGBTQ+ Worldview
Fact: MAGA Republicans want to abolish the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). It’s one of the few items on the to-do list of Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 (AKA “Agenda...
Special Education
Hate, Danger, and Debt: Navigating Being Trans in Higher Education
As a gender-fluid, neurodivergent student who has surmounted dozens of hurdles to get from high school to college, I am all too familiar with the reasons why trans youth go into higher education in...
LGBTQ
Trans Students Are Not Okay. Our Time to Act is Now.
Recently, while scrolling through my Instagram, I came across a reel that featured a passionate speech from Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, asserting to her Republican colleagues that she...
anti-racism
Parents Storm D.C., Tell the GOP Whose Rights They Forgot in Their “Parents Bill of Rights”
This week, 75 parent activists from the National Parents Union, representing dozens of states, descended on Capitol Hill. They came to tell lawmakers the truth about H.R. 5, dubbed the “Parents Bill...
LGBTQ
8 Things This Teacher-Mom Wants You to Know about Trans Kids
Since last summer, I have been speaking with a number of parents of trans children in elementary school. Some live in districts where it is still safe to speak openly about gender identity with young...