"When students come back in person in the fall, I will be able to better teach social-emotional skills and provide sensory learning opportunities that young children need. But first, I need to get my students back into the classroom. We need to work with families to remove the barriers of doubt and misinformation."

"When students ask me why they haven’t seen or heard the cicadas, I want to answer truthfully and completely. That means discussing the history of racial segregation in our city and the lasting effects of environmental injustice."

"The term learning loss is deficit-based and implies that students are lacking in something. Instead, we should be using asset-based language. I believe that we should be talking a lot less about ‘learning loss’ and a lot more about the 'learning leaps' my students have taken over this past year."