Read about efforts to design meaningful literacy practices with Black families and educators, elevate women and non-binary leadership in sports, rediscover the importance of play-based learning, and more.

Stories include: wellness & resilience for college and beyond, diversifying the school-based mental health workforce, a model for growing community wellness, spotlight on teacher-led professional development, embracing a modern definition of literacy, and more.

This is the right moment to reintroduce our magazine under a title that captures our community’s shared mission. Stories include: Sitting at the Feet of our Elders, Justice-focused Climate Science Education, Tell Me Your Hopes and Dreams: Supporting college readiness in Yakima, Listening for the Fullness of the Student Experience, and more.

It’s imperative that we act on this opportunity to leave behind inequitable systems of education and embrace the lessons we’ve learned about co-designing justice-centered strategies with families and communities that better serve all youth and move us closer to realizing a more equal and vibrant society.

Education is central to creating a more equal and plural society. But educational systems, including colleges of education like ours, also maintain structures of oppression that harm communities of color.

The College of Education carries a special responsibility to foster more equal systems of education.

Learn how UW College of Education researchers are working to create opportunities for all children to fully explore and develop their individual identity and potential—and become optimistic, creative and valued members of society.

Our future here in the Northwest and throughout the nation is inextricably linked to how well we prepare the scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and leaders of tomorrow to take up the pressing challenges that lie ahead.

Explore how the UW College of Education is partnering with teachers, school leaders, families, social service agencies and community organizations throughout Washington State and beyond to make learning come alive for all students.

The UW College of Education approaches the biggest challenges in education with a spirit of possibility. This issue explores our innovative work in early education, professional development for educators, STEM instruction, social-emotional well-being and multicultural education.

Our researchers are partnering with Washington’s most challenging, poverty- impacted schools, and moving inside them to work side-by- side with educators to reach underserved students.

Learn about researchers who are partnering with schools, districts, and communities to turn around deficit-based assumptions, create learning opportunities for all students, and ensure all voices are heard as we move toward more equitable education systems.