Sharlonda Buckman will make you realize a new narrative for educating our children is needed in the state of Michigan. She will not only tell you how, but use her own personal experience as a student, parent, and community activist in Detroit. Today she is the Assistant Superintendent of Family and Community Engagement of the Detroit Public School Community District. She will touch your heart and make you think what your next steps should be as a parent, educator, and lover of children. More of her story is told in her first book, The Ardent Advocate.