Whenever a mass shooting takes place in schools, public discussion often focuses on laws or policies that might have prevented the tragedy. But averting school violence needs more than gun policy. It requires both prevention and crisis response that take students’ emotional well-being – not just their physical safety – into account.
Read MoreThe Carbon Clock is Ticking: Children Will Live the Future that Burning Fossil Fuels is Setting on Fire offers a rapidly closing window of opportunity to change the future now. It is important that we respond to the climate crisis by prioritizing the support of children and young people who will be most affected by the rising temperatures and extreme weather events that will make life difficult for them living on a much hotter and less hospitable planet.
Read MoreMonica Taylor beautifully illustrates what children need, what parents want, and what teachers need to do to create spaces in which young children can thrive and develop into thoughtful, confident, compassionate, and creative human beings.
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