Author: Nola Jones

Despite the fact that Blythe Hinitz has won numerous awards, they are not the first thing you notice about her career. It’s the endurance. In a nation that has never quite figured out what to do with its youngest children, 45 years of attending the same college in the same field. These days, that kind of perseverance is uncommon. Perhaps it was always the case. In 2015, Exchange magazine named Hinitz, a professor of elementary and early childhood education at The College of New Jersey, one of just three people in the US to be named an Exceptional Master Leader.…