Emma and Erin’s article from this spring is ever more critical reading today.

Deputy Director for Engagement Sam Purdy was on NBC Connecticut last night, speaking about RISE's recent Grade 9 Symposium and the importance of personalized interventions to help keep students on-track. #RISENetwork bit.ly/3yMJ7QQ

In middle school, I attended the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation summer program (me in Godspell) Yale University. This transformative experience motivated me to chair the US Grant board 13 years ago. I’m still at it! These notes from families are part of why I’m still involved. #equity #NHV

Proud of you, Dad! “His patient shepherding, signature style, and probing insights have made him a grandmaster of journalism that matters.”

The best call of Judge’s jonrón:

The latest Major League Baseball game end time was in a July 1993 matchup between this year’s NLCS teams, who wrapped one up at 4:40 AM in July 1993 with this hit by the Phillies’ closer. #RepBX #ForTheLand youtu.be/gw7XqUly9ic

Twitter promoting a Nestle parody from a verified account as a “Funny Tweet.”

We have made a decision to saturate this nation with weapons, without any regard for a person’s fitness to own a tool of potential mass murder. It doesn’t have to be this way. We could - and must - choose a different reality.

I thought Cole and Donaldson had buried the hatchet…

It was an honor to write about Kane Coronado, the Wheelie King of Grand Rapids, for @nytmag’s moving The Lives They Lives issue devoted to young victims of gun violence. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

My high school baseball coaches, muttering to each other after yet another error:

What if the whole 118th Congress is just votes for speaker of the house?

2 yrs ago: Jan 6, 5:04pm, I took this photo of law enforcement using flash bang grenades & tear gas on a violent mob trying to break into the U.S. Capitol. It was hr 4 in my gas mask, helmet & bulletproof vest photographing hand-to-hand combat between police & U.S. citizens. 1/9

The RISE team is thrilled to share news of our Grade 9 Summer Symposium, bringing together school teams across the region to promote freshman success. #RISEGrade9Symposium >> Learn more & register: bit.ly/3K5WZvG

I’m very proud to work at a place that partners with dedicated leaders like Barb and Mike, whose wonderful op-ed highlights the power and impact (and importance!) of the cross-school collaboration Connecticut RISE Network helps to facilitate.

Over the past few years, RISE's Engagement team has led the charge of scaling our approach to more schools and districts in new communities in exciting ways. Learn more about how they are partnering with an ever-growing number of schools in CT and beyond. bit.ly/45UVHuR

Final preparations complete! #ThisIsYale | #MarchMadness

The decor at the Connecticut RISE Network summer retreat resembles my 8th birthday party. And our ED just used the uniform debacle as an example in her opening talk. Céspedes Family BBQ are you guys coming? We’re just down the road from Dunkin Park…

Amazing.

FIRST BALLOT HALL OF FAMER!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!