The COVID Slide Last week, I watched a powerful webinar from Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center about health inequity and COVID-19. One of the first speakers, Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, started to talk about vulnerable populations but quickly corrected herself. She… Read More »The COVID Slide
What will be your story? It’s not always easy to measure the impact of family and community engagement efforts. Some aspects of education — like test scores or report card grades — (notwithstanding the wide variety of controversies around their… Read More »What will be your story?
How COVID-19 is Bringing Inequality to the Forefront For the past few weeks, one image has been recurring in my mind. I keep picturing the living conditions of a student whose home I visited a few times when I was… Read More »How COVID-19 is Bringing Inequality to the Forefront
Adapting for Improvement in Light of COVID-19 I naively said to my family a few weeks ago that I was lucky that my business wouldn’t be affected in the way that so many restaurants and other small businesses are by… Read More »Adapting for Improvement in Light of COVID-19
LeBron’s I Promise School: Addressing Root Causes Most of us have been raised to believe that school is the great equalizer, the ticket to success in life, or the escape from the circumstances into which you were born. For many… Read More »LeBron’s I Promise School: Addressing Root Causes
Bill Gates and the Importance of Social Capital My husband and I recently finished watching the new Netflix documentary, Inside Bill’s Brain. We both found Bill Gates’ story to be fascinating and inspiring, impressed by how he and his wife have channeled… Read More »Bill Gates and the Importance of Social Capital