I heard from one of you today, someone feeling down and an awful lot like not-enough. That’s tough to hear, and I can’t say it’s the first time that I’ve heard it. It’s tough because, in some ways, as your trainer, I feel like I’ve raised you. That’s ridiculous, of course. You came to me […]
473 Million Women Still Can’t Read
During Women’s History Month, all of us at SLD Read encourage you to think about what you can do to support female literacy at home and around the world. We are proud to be an organization managed and staffed primarily by women. We are keenly aware, every day, that without the ability to read, we […]
That Population
I was presenting to a group of educators a few weeks back when a collection of words popped up in a distinctly unpleasant order: We don’t have that population here. I flinched when I heard it because the word that was said in the tone that it all too often is, as if it stood […]