The Shift to STEAM
Dr. Elizabeth Alvarez, Superintendent of Forest Park School District 91 in Forest Park, Illinois For the first 13 years of my teaching career, I was a science teacher with a......
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A Story of Racial Politics
The story of Chris Smalls is the story of racial politics. It is no different than what we see playing out in Congress at the Hearings with Judge Ketanji Brown...
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ENDING PERIOD POVERTY AND SHAMING
While some school districts and states have come to realize that menstrual products in bathrooms should be just as ubiquitous as toilet paper, or for that matter urinals in men’s...
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Groundhog Day Policy Issues
While the weather may be drastically different in Hawaii than in the rest of our nation, the policy issues are not. A story buried deep in the paper caught my...
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Harnessing Teacher Innovation
We know innovation comes from solving difficult problems. There is no more difficult problem today than figuring out how to educate 50.7 million students in our nation’s public education systems...
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A Folding Chair Movement in Hawaii
In Hawaii, women are often missing from the public policy and decision-making tables. We are talking about women business owners and employees across sectors, heads of households, mothers and students....
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ALL STUDENTS NEED DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY
It’s easy to forget the lessons learned during a crisis once the threat subsides and the desire to return to normal prevails. Will we emerge from COVID-19 ready, willing and able to......
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