Understanding School Funding: Context Is What Matters

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...

Set Comfort Aside

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...

The Beautifully Different Brain

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...

Life After A Year Of Solitude

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...