Three Years of Fear: When Students Turn Stories Into Healing

Seven years ago, I was lucky enough to be sitting at a table with some of the most creative people in San Antonio education, the Cast Network and friends. We were brainstorming and dreaming about opportunities for kids.  We shared memories from our own middle and high school experiences, and Lorenzo Gomez’s book, Tafolla Toro:  […]

Beyond the Letter: The Real Consequences of Texas’ A–F School Grading System

State-issued grades may reduce schools to a single letter, but the real story of student success is written in opportunity, access, and community. More than 10 years ago, I had a health scare. I had visited my primary care doctor for routine blood work, and a heart murmur was detected among other potential concerns related […]

Do We Need To Re-Learn How To Learn?

The post on LinkedIn was so elegantly simple, I kept coming back to it: “The more you code without AI, the better you will be at utilizing AI to code. The irony around ‘vibe coding’ is that its earliest adherents will be the worst at it. College freshmen that write all their code with LLM’s […]