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Making sure you show up in your own story

(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..

News & Updates

The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?

In ‘The Anxious Generation,’ Jonathan Haidt argues that the move from ‘play-based childhood’ to ‘phone-based childhood’ has had disastrous effects Review by Judith WarnerMarch 22, 2024 at 10:29 a.m. EDT Washington Post If you follow the always abundant literature of What’s…..

America’s happiness score drops amid a youth ‘midlife crisis’

Washington Post March 21 2024 Victoria Bisset The United States is no longer among the world’s 20 happiest countries, according to a new report — with young people hit particularly hard and reporting lower levels of well-being than any other…..

How can I help an intelligent 5th-grader who shows signs of depression?

Washington Post March 21 st 2024 Dear Meghan: How can I help or relate to a fifth-grade student who does very little work, barely talks but does show up at school. He shows up to the counseling group but says nothing……

Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Monifa McKnight steps down

Nicole Asbury Washington Post Feb 2nd 2024 Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Monifa B. McKnight stepped down Friday amid questions about how the district handled sexual harassment, bullying and other allegations involving a former principal. McKnight — the first woman to…..

Council members admonish Montgomery school officials’ handling of misconduct reports

Nicole Asbury Washington Post Feb 9th 2024 The Montgomery County Council chastised school system officials Thursday for their handling of misconduct complaints involving employees, including the district’s release of a lightly redacted report on allegations involving a former principal that came out…..

Montgomery school board apologizes for mishandling misconduct complaints

Nicole Asbury Washington Post Feb 7th 2024 Montgomery County school board members apologizedTuesdayfor the district’s failures in handling of employee misconduct complaints and vowed to heal the school system. “We are deeply sorry for the pain that this has caused…..

Public Untruths

John Lukacs in The Passing of the Modern Age (1977). “The sometimes hopeless slowness in the movement of ideas makes life difficult for the young who, even more than adults, are very much dependent upon the ideas of others. This…..

Strategies for Leveling the Educational Playing Field

BY Elizabeth M. Ross As an academic, David Deming says it is always tempting to think that we have to better understand major problems before we can solve them but, when it comes to the profound disparities in K–12 education in America, he…..

2023 In Eight Points: Meditating On Our Planetary Moment

Otto Sharmer As the year draws to an end and we head into 2024, I feel the need to close the feedback loop between all the challenges of 2023 and my own sensemaking. Here are three tangible things that stand…..

The Joy of Communal Girlhood, the Anguish of Teen Girls

OPINION  JESSICA BENNETT New York Times December 31st 2023  OK, I’ll admit it. When I learned of hot girl walks, I tried it: Go on a walk, think about how hot you are, do not talk (or think) about men. I thought girl dinner was pretty funny, too. Adult…..