by Erin Pier | Jun 1, 2022 | DPS Policy
I have worked in education for the better part of two decades. First, as a special education teacher, next as a school psychologist. My husband has supported me throughout my career but, as a mobile engineer his work experience is very different from mine. He receives...
by Erin Pier | Nov 1, 2021 | Anti-racism, Equity
Originally Published in the Greater Park Hill News – Oct 31st, 2021 White Supremacy Is Not A Shark; It Is The Water By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier My husband and I have been on a 90’s movie kick lately. Recently, after tucking the kids in bed, we decided it...
by Erin Pier | Jun 1, 2021 | Equity
Originally published in the Greater Park Hill News, June 1st, 2021 Identifying Dyslexia Should Be The Norm, Not The Outlier By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier My daughter’s brain operates in a beautifully different way from mine. She has an episodic memory that...
by Erin Pier | May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Originally Published in the Greater Park Hill News – May 3rd, 2021 It’s Hard To Learn, When You Don’t Know Where You’ll Sleep By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, surrounded by white, middle-upper class Catholics. Because...
by Erin Pier | Apr 1, 2021 | Equity
Originally published in the Greater Park Hill News, March 31st, 2021 A Time To Move, Create, Connect, And Be Kind By Erin Pier For the GPHN Erin Pier Last September in these pages, I compared the crisis of COVID-19 with that of Sept. 11, 2001. I shared my opinion that...
