Claire Fiddian-Green: Show gratitude for health professionals, educators
We are incredibly lucky to have these everyday heroes in our local hospitals and schools.
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Claire Fiddian-Green: We must do more to help Hoosiers quit smoking
Quitting cigarettes and other nicotine products is hard, but it is achievable through proven cessation tools.
Claire Fiddian-Green: We must increase the number of Hoosiers with degrees
The jobs that fuel central Indiana’s economy will increasingly require a workforce with some form of postsecondary education.
Claire Fiddian-Green: We need more creative ideas to boost civics literacy
Right now, participation in Hoosier Hall Pass is low, and there is often a shortage of poll workers on Election Day.
Claire Fiddian-Green: New approach is needed to address K-12 equity gaps
Isn’t it time we acknowledge that what we have been doing to close K-12 equity gaps isn’t working?
Claire Fiddian-Green: We need to support syringe-exchange programs
More than three decades of data and Indiana’s own experience demonstrate that these programs work.
Claire Fiddian-Green: State should invest in emotional needs of students
“One critical support that K-12 schools can provide for students is the intentional development of social-emotional learning competencies.”
Claire Fiddian-Green: Banding together to fight challenges brings hope
These examples of can-do attitudes and togetherness are especially powerful in countering other recent instances of divisiveness and hate.
Claire Fiddian-Green: We must improve STEM education to be competitive
A future in which automation and AI impact every sector of our economy is just a few short years away.
Claire Fiddian-Green: To improve outcomes, train more Black teachers
This Black History Month, we should commit ourselves to closing the persistent Black-white academic achievement gap.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Ensuring Hoosier children can read should be 2021 goal
Let’s apply the same sense of urgency to ensuring students learn to read as we have to producing a coronavirus vaccine.
Claire Fiddian-Green: We must plan now to address learning losses
It has become increasingly clear that K-12 student learning outcomes will be affected by COVID-19.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Let’s focus on our shared democracy
Regardless of political views, geography, race, ethnicity, religion, income or gender, our votes all count the same.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Investments in public health are key to addressing racial disparities
As we continue to work together to enable children and adults to return safely to school and work, we must prioritize addressing the underlying factors that have resulted in the racial disparities exposed by the pandemic.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Don’t stop at addressing digital divide for students
As we work to address barriers to eLearning, we should also use the pandemic as an opportunity to shine a light on broader inequities in K-12 education.
VIEWPOINT: Increasing access to medicine critical to opioid treatment
Myriad factors drive the gaps in access to medication for opioid use disorder.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Leaving a legacy: Lessons from two role models
Define your purpose in life. Work hard to achieve it. Invest in your personal relationships.
Claire Fiddian-Green: A big hairy goal—boost math literacy in Indiana
Hoosier students are not acquiring the math skills they need for success in a global economy.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Let’s build bridges with people who don’t think like us
Why not strengthen fraying relationships by developing solutions in areas where we agree?
Claire Fiddian-Green & Maureen Weber: Preschool teachers are important. Pay them accordingly
The professional training required to build and sustain the skills to teach our youngest learners is expensive and time-consuming, especially relative to the pay. This makes it challenging to find and retain well-trained teachers.