Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
This op-ed was written by Paul Pastorek, former Louisiana state superintendent of education. It appeared in the Seattle Times. The Big Easy is about food, music and Bourbon Street, not about innovation, right? Wrong! New Orleans is at the center of an education revolution that is developing an “education system” that defies conventional wisdom. If, [...]
Crystal Garvin is a mother of three from Bellingham, WA. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Whatcom Community College. I am a stay at home mother of three children. My oldest is an Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) graduate and is currently in kindergarten. She is a model student and [...]
This column is by Macy Olivas. It appeared in the Spokesman Review. “If I close my eyes, I can still see the college pennants hanging in the classrooms, and hear the echoes of voices asking who’s staying after school for Advanced Placement tutoring. I can still feel the texture of the well-used SAT prep books [...]
Sonja Lennox is a mother of two from the city of Tacoma. She is an advocate for early learning and parent engagement across the state of Washington. She has traveled to Washington, DC and given presentations on the importance of family involvement in children’s education. Both of my children have attended Head Start. I am [...]
From an editorial in The Olympian: Anyone who has had students in this state’s K-12 education system knows that there are effective teachers who inspire and motivate their students. The result is students who reach for academic success. Unfortunately, there are also teachers who seem to have lost their passion, lost their drive and simply [...]
Sarah Ramsdell is a mother of two and lives in the Vancouver, Washington area. Everyone knows children don’t come with instruction manuals. I imagine, at some point, every parent has wished their child had. Regardless of the lack of an instruction manual, every parent is conscious of the fact that the first years of a [...]
I have two children enrolled in Alexander Twilight College Prep Academy, an Aspire charter school in Sacramento, CA. My daughter started at this school the first year that it opened and she was part of the first kindergarten class. We decided to enroll her there because our neighborhood school had very low scores and we [...]
Traci lives in Puyallup, WA, is a mother to three, and works at the Bethel School District. She has her Masters of Teaching from University of Puget Sound. Budget cuts again. The teacher in me shudders. The mom in me is grateful to have been blessed with the children I have. Let me elaborate. In [...]
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