History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.