Youth Frontiers’ Podcast, The Teachers’ Lounge, seeks to encourage dialogue on topics relevant to student growth and character development within our schools. For our 11th episode, we connected with College Possible Founder and CEO, Jim McCorkell.READ MORE
By Joe Cavanaugh
One evening at home, I was surfing through Netflix for something to watch with my nine year-old daughter, Tess, and I found what I thought was the perfect thing – the original “Star Trek.” It was one of my favorite shows as a kid and I was excited to share it with my daughter.READ MORE
By Erica Cantoni, Youth Frontiers’ Manager of Corporate and Major Gift Engagement
As near as this newbie mom can tell, parenthood is a Ph.D. course in understanding your children. Learning how to crack their codes and best nurture and teach them, and enjoying all their sweet, weird little idiosyncrasies. In the beginning, I took fierce pride in at least knowing my children better than anyone else does (save for my amazing husband). I grew these babies inside me, learned what time of day they would kick and worried when they stopped. Every single day of their lives, I have held them and studied their faces and learned which cry means hunger and which means I’m tired of being read to, lady, let’s do something else.
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Youth Frontiers’ podcast, The Teachers’ Lounge, features conversations about how we can build school communities where our kids can thrive – not just academically, but socially and emotionally as well. In our tenth episode, we had the privilege of talking with Brenda Cassellius – Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education. As a former paraprofessional, teacher, principal and superintendent, Brenda has worked at all levels in education. Brenda brings a lot of insight into student success and what we can do to make our systems better.
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