Greetings! Nearly fifteen years ago, I was speaking with a university student affairs official who declared, “We have a real crisis in boys’ education. Boys aren’t graduating high school or going to college at the same rates…” My reply: “I …
Greetings! Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking with students around the country who are reflecting about this past school year and thinking about the upcoming one. Some students have been learning remotely for nearly 16 months, and others …
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’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 …
