Personal and professional experience combined with healthy discernment can inform suicide prevention initiatives, which emphasize society-wide knowledge, skill, and ability where it matters.

People seem to want kids to be emotionally neutral in the classroom. The idea is that if they aren’t emotionally settled or calm (aka emotionally regulated), then they cannot learn. But cognitive processing does not require emotional neutrality. People are always thinking and feeling—emotion is not a barrier to learning (Pessoa, 2013). In many situations, it is a part of learning. Adults habitually trying to get kids “regulated” by teaching them “self-regulation strategies” a

Why I stopped trying to “overcome” and started building environments that work.

Social media can be unreal - almost a nonsensical satire —a statement is made, then one reaction sparks a cascade, and suddenly the noise is everywhere. When the reels from Literacy Now, Together dropped and the conversation on X started, I felt my nerves kick in.