I have had the privilege of knowing Nicole Elliott since I was in eighth grade. We later reconnected as work colleagues at our alma mater and have since maintained a collaborative connection. In honor of Mother's Day, I share this poignant episode.
Maya Angelou says, “At our best, we’re all teachers.” Nicole strives to learn from the many teachers in her life as well as offer her own lessons from her time as a 20-year public school teaching veteran and from her last ten years as a teacher educator for the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford University and at the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning. Nicole is a mother to two young men and an author who recently published her first memoir, Nothing's Missing: A Year of Reckoning, Release, and Remembering Who I am. Her podcast, "Copy Room Conversations," aims to serve the treasured humans who are our country's educators.