Carl Finer

The Importance of Friendsgiving

I was a founding teacher at a failed school. It prepared me to help my school reset as we emerge from the pandemic.

10 Life Lessons I Learned Interviewing People During the Pandemic

Zoom Made Me a Better Teacher

Life During Lockdown: Carl Finer

Rise High School for One Day Magazine

Help From Peers Increases Chances for College Success

In Southern California, a charter network that includes 18 high schools says it has found a way, at the relatively low cost of about $200 per student, of helping more first-generation college aspirants finish four-year degrees by protecting them from…

In Racing, as in Life: Don’t Beat Up on Yourself

Rising High: Los Angeles School Aimed at Disconnected Youth Expands

The LA Run Crew Scene

Running culture in Los Angeles is changing, and that change is at the vanguard of the big-picture shifts happening throughout this country: geographic, demographic, generational,technological, social. Traditionally, if you wanted to run with other…

Casting Calm: Nonprofit Uses Fly Fishing to Connect Foster Youth to Outdoors, Inner Peace

Seeing The Finish Line in a New Way

California Child Welfare Bill Watch

Adoption: By the Numbers

Ken Berrick, Seneca Family of Agencies, Earns James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award

Judge John Romero, Jr. Joins National Committee on Sex Trafficking of Children

Reflecting on the Malibu Half Marathon

The LA Run Crew Scene

Seeing the finish line in a new way

A Day Exploring Malibu