- Lily Lederman
- March 29, 2026
How Extracurriculars Shape Student Identity
Ask most adults what they remember from high school or college, and the answer usually isn’t the curriculum. It’s the team, the club, the show,
Ask most adults what they remember from high school or college, and the answer usually isn’t the curriculum. It’s the team, the club, the show,
The college campus has always been its own particular world — a temporary community with its own norms, its own social hierarchies, its own version
The straight line from high school to four-year college used to be the assumed path for a certain kind of student — the academically oriented,
Ask a student what makes a class good, and they might mention the subject matter or the activities. But ask them what makes a teacher
Here’s what a middle school teacher told me about what changed in her classroom when phones were banned: “The first week was terrible. They were
School safety is one of those topics where the distance between the political conversation and the lived experience of the people actually in schools is
Campus ministry probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about influential forces in college students’ lives. But on many campuses
Ask someone who graduated high school in 2015 what it was like, and ask someone who graduated in 2025, and you’re not talking to the
I know someone who checks the news first thing when they wake up. Before coffee, before talking to anyone, sometimes before getting out of bed.
“Boundaries” has become one of the most used and most misused words in contemporary relationship discourse. It shows up on therapy memes, in breakup texts,