Authentic learning experiences give our students skills and knowledge for life

Assessments help teachers measure student learning and allow students to discover where they excel and how to improve.

Education provides a structure for a life well-lived, a path to follow where fear and ignorance fall by the wayside. When education works, it fuels the natural curiosity of children and it makes us wonder, it makes us humble, it makes us joyful. I have devoted my professional life to education because I see it as the best way to prevent many of the social ills that we face as a society. Education can be a force for good, a force for social change, a force for liberation, and this can cause great concern among those that would prefer to control and to suppress.

Throughout history, human evolution has been deeply influenced by art and sports. From ancient civilizations to the modern days, there have been social movements marked by these activities: Mexican muralism and American football star Colin Kaepernick’s protests against racial discrimination are a couple of examples that come to mind.