I’m reminding you to remind me to look for the good. It is still there and may be shining even brighter on these dark days. In more ways than I …
BRAGGING RIGHTS: What we do works!
First, click on the image below and tell me what you see! Just in case charts and graphs and data aren’t your thing, let me summarize in words: Our students …
2017: An Extraordinary Year
These have been challenging weeks. I had not planned a year-end blogpost, thinking I had little constructive to say about the way the world is treating our students. Then, yesterday, …
ACT NOW: Dream On! (URGENT)
I ask that you TODAY demand that Congress: Protect some 800,000 individuals who are working and attending school under DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), slated for termination in March, …
Food for Thought
It does not take much to imagine what it is like to try to study or sit in class if you are chronically hungry or malnourished. While some of us …
Discretion and Accountability
Sometimes, it’s the small stuff. When Paul Arenberg first approached me in 2010 about an Executive Director’s discretionary fund, I said a hasty “no thank you.” My public policy and …