We continue our conversation with Sam and continue also to reflect upon her experience of coming out as transgender and being transgender in her school and what it tells us about schools.

Sam was a student in Jennifer’s school when she was in middle school. Sam has now gone on to high school and we’ll hear more from her in the second part of our interview, which will be released next month.

What are the contemporary conversations about gifted education? How does this framing advantage and disadvantage the students to which it's applied?

Is there more youth anxiety in the contemporary world than previously? What’s the difference between anxiety and stress? What are the generational differences?

STEM and STEAM refer to science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics and they are all the rage in the conversation about American education. Why?