“Who Knows You?” Impactful Student Relationships as a Measure of Achievement
After years of phone calls home for my misbehavior, my mother got the usual call from school. It was the third week of second grade, and she already knew what the call mean: leave work, brace for another lecture, offer the familiar promise to talk with me at home. But this time was different. Instead […]
Writing the Future: What Houston’s Education Community Sees Coming
“There are big changes with Texas legislation this year in terms of vouchers, funding, teacher certification requirements and potentially testing. I predict that we will see a decline in public school enrollment” Last year, I made our predictions about Houston’s public education landscape sitting in a quiet office, drawing from research and conversations with a […]
What We Saw, What Comes Next: What Took Center Stage in Houston’s Public Education System
The defining story of this school year wasn’t happening in classrooms; it was happening to them. Politics, once a distant backdrop to the daily work of education, moved to center stage in ways impossible to ignore in Houston. “I’ve been in education for almost two decades, and for most of that time, politics felt like […]
