The Grandparent Effect: Helping Children Thrive Through Love, Support, and Connection

Kristen J. Amundson is a former teacher, school board chair, state legislator, and CEO of a national education organization. She has spent decades answering questions from parents and grandparents about how they can help kids do better in school. She is a nationally recognized expert on student achievement, education, and how families can become advocates for their own child and for every child in the school system. She is the author of 81 Questions for Parents: Helping Your Kids Succeed in School and Unfinished Learning: Parents, Schools, and the COVID School Closures, and lives in Virginia.