I last updated this website in 2013, shortly after moving to Seattle when I finished my Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. Much has happened since then, so I’ve spent the afternoon updating the site with links to stories from my nearly three-year stint with The Seattle Times’ Education Lab project as well as updates to my resume and biography.

The banner photo is the view from Erice, an ancient mountaintop village in Sicily that is home to the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture.  I was invited there in the summer of 2013 to give a talk at The Eighth International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education titled  “A journalist’s quest to understand how teaching makes us human.”

In September of 2013, I began working for The Seattle Times, where I wrote in-depth stories about the neuroscience of reading, the relationship between emotions and thinking in the classroom, and the benefits of professional mental health coaching to prevent expulsions from preschool (see the Stories tab for links to those stories and many more). I completed my contract on July 1, 2016 and I’m now working on a nonfiction book about how researchers in many fields are beginning to create a new science of teaching.