Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction…The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall [...]
Tonight, the most important question I have to ask will be: Is it appropriate to wear my t-shirt that has hip-hop stars on the side of Mt. Rushmore to the evening for new Upper School students and their parents hosted at the fancy private school Jane will be starting this week? I can’t decide. Yes, [...]
See, here’s the thing: there are things about which I really, really don’t care. I worked on a fairly high profile political campaign a few years ago, and we actually turned this into a game. We were all very smart, driven, progressives, and the game was to name the progressive cause that you really, really, [...]
This post is written by Emma Margraf, a Washington state foster mom. I am a foster parent to a teenage girl who goes to public school. I’ve had her for two years, and in the time I’ve had her I have attended what feels like approximately 9 million parent teacher conferences, school meetings, back to [...]
