Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
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 [...]
Beth Sigall, attorney, special education advocate, and mother of three children, (including one with autism), believes the aim of the school district should be to put every special education advocate out of business. She was inspired to become an advocate when she saw the distress of another parent trying to decipher the special education law [...]
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Stephanie Wood-Garnett, the Director of Teacher and Principal Evaluation for the Center of Educational Leadership at the University of Washington, is taking on issue that has been discussed since the early 1960s, students of color being disproportionately placed in special ed. Listen in as Wood-Garnett shares some shocking facts (a third of all U.S. prisoners [...]
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Sophie Maines, single mother of a 5-year-old boy, believes she and her son are dyslexic. She also believes she is capable of reading much better than she does – if only someone knew how to teach her. She graduated from high school and recently finished all her massage therapy courses, and her son is making [...]
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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, [...]
Lera Moore and her boss, Trina Westerlund, of CHILD – Children’s Institute for Learning Differences – discuss how they use their backgrounds to help teachers get the information and resources they need to help all learning styles. Trina says: “I am convinced teachers need all the help they can get, and what they are getting [...]
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Felicia Reeves is shaking up society by a second generation of paying attention not allowing racial profiling to hinder her grandchildren from achieving academic success. Follow up with Felicia Reeves’ granddaughter’s progress. Surprise, granddaughter has dyslexia, too. (Listen to or read the transcript of the original interview.) Return to the What Can I Do? homepage. [...]
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High energy, uber-involved and tenacious, Alison Meryweather, lives with her husband and children in Issaquah, a 96% graduation rate school district. Alison quit her job to advocate 24/7 for her children’s education to ensure they GET to college. Before you move to any district in search of the best education for your children, listen to [...]
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When Lynn Gilliland realized that her daughter couldn’t read in the 1st grade, she set up an appointment with her teacher. She was told not to worry, that it was most likely a development delay. That answer didn’t sit right with her, so she had her privately evaluated and discovered that her daughter has dyslexia. [...]
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