Anyone who doesn't think children need time for recess, play, and to socialize, doesn’t understand how children learn, and shouldn't be making decisions about how they learn.
Something I’m trying to teach both my middle schoolers at work and my toddlers at home: just because somebody is holding you accountable, doesn’t mean they’re being mean to you.
A Harvard professor focused on the future of work says college degrees are becoming less important in the workplace than the social and executive functioning skills mastered (or not) during the years of early childhood. https://t.co/yPN8QcK7Bh
Richard Fierro, the Army veteran who disarmed the Colorado Springs gay bar shooter, on what he thought about being at a drag show for the first time: “That is what I fought for, so they can do whatever the hell they want.”
I hope this weekend you can resist the terrible compulsion to be *productive.* I hope you find time to read and dance and create for their own sakes and not for any profit. I hope you have moments of being just overcome with joy by the weirdness and wonder of being.
Suicide is a serious problem that has long-lasting effects.
Take a moment this week to check on your friends, families, and loved ones.
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide call the suicide and crisis lifeline at 988.
#NationalSuicidePreventionWeek
When you follow a leader, consider what would lead you to withdraw your support.
If the answer is nothing, your integrity is in jeopardy. Your highest loyalty belongs to principles, not people.
No leader deserves unconditional love. Commitment is earned through character.
my favorite people are the ones who are just drunk on learning, who check more books out of the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about outer space or the French Revolution and just. never. stop.
We released guidance today to providers that ensures all patients who go to the emergency department for care have access to the full rights and protections for emergency care afforded under the law, which includes life- or health-saving abortion services. https://t.co/OgfP2bTDrf
Love is a type of generational wealth we don’t pursue enough.
We keep trying to own more, make more, travel more but we need to love more and better than our parents and their parents.
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
If you are okay with having Muslim, Jewish and Hindu students sit through a Christian prayer in public school, and not okay with having Christian students sit through a Muslim, Jewish or Hindu prayer, then it’s NOT religious freedom- it’s religious oppression.