Hey family,
It has been a while since I’ve shown up in your inbox, but I wanted to take a moment to reconnect.

On July 3, Teaching for the Culture® turned 7 years old.

Seven years of advocacy. Seven years of truth-telling. Seven years of showing up for students, parents, educators, and communities. Seven years of learning, growing, pivoting, and refusing to abandon the assignment.
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When I started Teaching for the Culture®, I knew our children deserved better. I knew our educators deserved to be heard. I knew families deserved access to information, resources, and advocacy that did not require them to already know how the system worked.

What I did not know was how much this work would stretch me.

This journey has taken me from classrooms to school board meetings, from community conversations to digital safety trainings, from policy discussions to public advocacy. It has also come with challenges, mistakes, lessons, receipts, resistance, and reminders that the work is still necessary.

But through it all, the mission has remained clear:

Our children matter. Their education matters. Their digital lives matter. Their voices matter. And our children deserve better.

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As Teaching for the Culture® enters year 7, I am more committed than ever to advocating for accountability, transparency, and integrity in education and in the digital spaces our children are navigating every day.

This next chapter is personal.

I will continue sharing resources for parents. I will continue speaking about digital safety, AI chatbots, social media, and the platforms impacting our children. I will continue creating tools that help families ask better questions, check the cellphone, and stay informed. And I will continue using my voice because advocacy does not stop just because life shifts, people misunderstand, or the assignment gets heavy.

To everyone who has supported Teaching for the Culture® over the years, thank you!!!

Whether you attended an event, shared a post, listened to a podcast, invited me to speak, encouraged me privately, or simply believed in the work, you are part of this story.
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Seven years later, I am still here. Still advocating. Still learning. Still building. Still standing on the 3 Keys: Accountability, Transparency, and Integrity.

And we are just getting started.
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Before you go, I want to leave you with a helpful parent and educator resource on understanding Lexile measures and reading levels.

Watch the Lexile resource here:

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Also, if you have not already, please subscribe to the Teaching for the Culture® YouTube channel. I will be sharing more parent resources, education conversations, digital safety content, and advocacy updates there.

With Gratitude,

Bianca Goolsby, MBA

Founder, Teaching for the Culture®