I was recently challenged to figure out my story…not what I do, or what Pressing Onward does, or even what problem we are trying to solve, but why I am so passionate about that problem – and then put it into words. Sometimes I don’t feel equipped to have to have the conversations I’m having.…

As if you weren’t already stressed and overwhelmed enough, we just had a week of weather (in Texas and Oklahoma, and I know across the country) that left many people without water, power, and food. This morning was trash pick up day in my neighborhood, and the streets were littered with sheetrock, flooring, ruined appliances,…

When I first started teaching almost 20 years ago, I taught Special Ed. This was before STAAR, and we gave our students the SDAA test. Now, I’m going to preface this with the understanding that I really had no idea what I was doing instructionally at this time. I had 6th-8th grade levels all in…

Have you ever walked into a place – any place – and thought, “The people here really love their job!”? We were on vacation last year in Colorado, and we went in this pizza place. The guy standing out the counter calling out our name to let us know our food was ready was doing…

A lack of language is one of the main hurdles the students we are targeting with culturally responsive have to face. Be it a lack of the English language (academic or social) as an English Learner, or a lack of vocabulary as a student living in generational poverty often experiences, this lack of language, and…