Greetings! For the past three years, I’ve essentially had two full- time jobs – with a lot of great support from an amazing team. In addition to my work at Green Ivy, I started Luminaria Learning, a non-profit initiative focused on two interrelated questions: How can …
Greetings! Hope you are inside and warm wherever you are on this snowy and rainy week! For those who were able to join last week for my community talk about Supporting Students for a Brighter 2021, I appreciate the lovely …
Greetings! The other day, I realized that we hadn’t seen students in our office in nearly ten months! Santa Clara County, where our office is located, is currently under stay at home orders. As we head into a new calendar year, …
As we move into the home stretch of 2020, I wanted to share a story and provide an update on our Life Navigator Middle School Advisory Program. Some of you may have heard me speak about it in its infancy, …
It’s no secret that this year’s election has been divisive and anxiety provoking – and historic. As of yesterday, 97.6 million Americans already cast their ballots through mail-in ballots and early visits to the voting booth. This year’s early voting already …
As we’re adjusting to this new school year, I realized I haven’t spent this much time in the San Francisco Bay Area since I was 17 years old. This fall, I am giving talks to parent and student audiences in …
Anyone else have one of those weeks? Months? I get it, 2020. The place I was last month for my “nature escape” is now under evacuation orders for the wildfires, so there’s that. Many students went back to school remotely …
I’ve spent the past few months speaking to teachers, parents, pediatricians, psychologists, principals, heads of school, and, most importantly, students around back to school this year. In my Green Ivy Educational Consulting office, we’ve been working with students and also designing …
Remember when it was all about freshly sharpened pencils and a few new back-to-school outfits? This school year, the only constant will be change. This last week has been intense for anyone dealing with school re-openings. Administrators and teachers are …
I realized I haven’t updated my blog in a while, and truthfully, it is because we have hit the ground running at non-stop speed since January, and went into overdrive with coronavirus related issues, remote learning and school closures. We’ve …
