Fifteen years after the attacks on September 11, most K-12 students have no personal memories of the event. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc
Why This Couple Waited 9 Years To Open A Wedding Gift
Kathy and Brandon Gunn of Michigan have been married nine years, but up until this May, they still had one wedding present sitting unopened in their closet. Kathy penned a post explaining why the couple had waited so long to open the gift ― a white box from Kathy’s great Aunt…
5 Years of Childhood Cancer Awareness And Counting
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and our color is gold. We gild our profile pictures and status updates with it in solidarity, driven to highlight the tiny warriors in our lives–the survivors, those still fighting and the dear ones we’ve lost. The stories vary from child to child, family…
50 Photos That Show The Raw Power Of This Year’s Olympic Women
Becoming an Olympic athlete is no small feat. It’s an achievement that takes a lifetime of hard work, dedication and an unstoppable pursuit to be the best. And no one knows that better than the women of the 2016 Rio Olympics. From Alaska to Florida, 391 women from around the…
50 Years Seeking Educational Equality: Revisiting the Coleman Report – Education Week
One of the most influential and hotly debated education studies in American history turns 50 this weekend. See what’s changed on five key education issues in the decades since James S. Coleman published his landmark report. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc
The Five Stages of Saying Goodbye to the Elementary School Years
Last Thursday I sat in an all-purpose room full of other teary-eyed parents and watched my last baby move up from elementary school to the new frontier of middle school. My time as a mom to a kid in elementary school is officially over. I will never again go to…
Celebrating 10 Years of Paid Family Leave in California — Now Let’s Get the Word Out!
Parenthood is an utterly unique experience, full of firsts: your baby’s first coo, first smile, first grasp of your hand. I’ve been lucky enough to experience those firsts four times over and know that this awesome privilege includes a solemn responsibility: to raise healthy, conscious and compassionate children who will…