The ESSA Needs Our Help to Make Every Student Succeed
December 11, 2015 – In previous blogs, we’ve outlined the federal role in education policy falling squarely on promoting quality and innovation and promoting equity – mitigating the impact of students’...
View ArticleBoosting Michigan’s Literacy: No Time Like the Present
July 29, 2016 – This week, Governor Snyder signed an Executive Order creating the Michigan PreK-12 Literacy Commission. Like many previous efforts, this Commission is charged over the next two years...
View ArticleContinuing to Move the Dime on Literacy
October 14, 2016 – Last week, Governor Snyder signed into law a new measure aimed to improve literacy by third grade. We’ve all heard it before – the critical importance of learning to read in the...
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A Big Thanks to You as I Move On
February 6, 2017 – This week marks my last week at Michigan’s Children. As I reflect back on my time at this incredibly important organization, I am so proud of the work of this agency and our...
View ArticleWhat it Really Means to Put Kids First
October 2, 2017 – Community leaders and advocates convened at Wayne State University for a community forum hosted by the United Way for Southeastern Michigan and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute...
View ArticleCasting A Vote for Kids and Families
November 2, 2017 – I still remember the first time I ever voted – it was 2000, a waiter at a restaurant in Washington, DC passed a ballot to me, a first grader who had just learned the names of our...
View ArticlePublic Policy in Defense of Black Lives
Oftentimes, we enter into our work of public policy advocacy with many goals on the forefront of our agenda, both individually and organizationally because we know the greater real-life impact our...
View ArticleWork Groups Get to Work
It’s a sticky Wednesday afternoon in June but nearly 100 educational professionals are crammed into three workgroups- virtually that is. All this, in participation with the Michigan Department of...
View ArticleGovernance and Leadership: We have an obligation and a responsibility to make...
January 20, 2021 – In her book, Leadership in Tumultuous Times, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles four America Presidents and their leadership legacies and asks the questions- “Are leaders born...
View ArticleNow a Federal Holiday, Juneteenth Calls on Us to Build a More Equitable Nation
On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved Black people that the Union had won the war and they were now free. Those in Galveston are considered to be the last to...
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