The Leadership Blog

Just what are some of the perfectly imperfect things I love?   I love the way Marlowe’s front tooth sticks out slightly and is sort of crooked right now as it wiggles its way loose.

What is the literacy light, and how can we turn it on?

    My son, who is four and in Pre-K, has started to figure out how to sound out words and actually read them. He’s starting to figure out how to...

Erika is turning 43. However, the gift is for us this year

My birthday is later this week and so as per usual it has me reflecting on life, and all that I am grateful for. I'm turning 43, so I...

Erika takes her eyes off the sky to share a few of her own moments of focus.

  We stayed up late-ish to watch the first part of the Super Moon Lunar Eclipse Spectacular on Sunday. And it was super,...

Erika reflects on how important it is to be grateful for you.

So when I was in high school I entered my county’s “Jr. Miss” pageant (which they called the “Hamilton County Young Woman of The Year”):...

Erika reflects of her memories of 9/11, her life fourteen years later, and the space between.

I was recently recording a webinar for the National Afterschool Association on the topic of how we engage families in our schools and afterschool programs. After I finished the session I was chatting...

My computer was foiling me at every turn yesterday. Documents I was trying to work on kept crashing. My VPN kept booting me off. The internet connection had a speed like the old-time AOL dial-up....