Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Culture

  • Using community to make our schools safer… and better

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    The other day I wrote about the question of school security. I argued that no reasonable person would want our kids to go to schools that were equipped to repel any possible invasion by a hostile adult. But there are other ways to make ourselves more secure, and improve our schools at the same time.…

  • Can we make our schools safer?

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    I sat in recently on a conversation about school safety that was sparked by the school shooting in Connecticut. Administrators, principals, and parents sat around a table talking about security and what it means to them. The most striking aspect of the conversation was how personally each one of these people who work in our…

  • First, do no harm

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    Last weekend I went to an educational conference held by the California Association for the Gifted. The conference is for educators, psychologists, and parents of gifted children. It’s heavily weighted toward public school teachers, but in general there’s something for everyone in the field. One morning I sat down with my wonderful publishers, Jim Webb…

  • Dear 20-year-old self,

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    Dear 20-year-old self, I remember the day you knocked on the door of the artist. You were a college student, and you were taking a child language acquisition course. When the professor had given the assignment to find a child to observe, you asked, “How do I find a child?” The people you knew were…

  • Science and inquiry

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    Each year, as soon as our county adds its science fair dates, I get them on the calendar and block out the weekend so I’m sure we don’t schedule anything over it. Since my son became eligible, I started blocking out those dates as well. For the last two years, he and I went to…