It’s a Sunday evening in mid-October. I’m watching the Red Sox playoff game on TV (Go Twins, but what are the playoffs?) and the much discussed fall foliage is beginning to appear. We’ve finished up our sixth week of class, and after moving to Boston from the Pacific North West, my home for the last…

HGSE has an unbelievable course catalog. As someone who is so deeply passionate about education, imagination, and justice, browsing the list of courses filled me with glee. Because of my program requirements, however, my opportunities to take many of these incredible classes are limited. I have program-specific classes I must take to graduate and to…

I don’t recall the exact moment when I realized I wanted to come to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It was hardly a natural decision: I had already been in the workforce for well over a decade, had a wife and daughter, and had no reason to believe that additional time as a formal…

On Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 I landed at Logan International Airport with two suitcases and a purse. The past fourteen years of my life in sunny California, were uprooted, stuffed into luggage, then launched across the United States, courtesy of American Airlines. I initially felt a lot of anxiety surrounding my transition into life at…