Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of hosting a series of conversations for NCSESAME with some of the leading thinkers, researchers, survivors, and advocates working to prevent sexual abuse in schools.

The podcast—Crossing the Line—explores a difficult but essential question:

How do we create schools where students are truly safe?

In these conversations, we talk about the realities behind educator sexual misconduct — how it happens, why it is often misunderstood, and what schools, parents, and communities can do to prevent it.

The guests include psychologists, legal scholars, survivor advocates, policy experts, and journalists. What they share is often surprising. Many of them challenge common assumptions and offer deeper insights into the patterns of manipulation, institutional failures, and cultural blind spots that allow abuse to occur.

But the conversations are not just about problems. They are about solutions, prevention, and understanding — and about the many people working every day to make schools safer for students.

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting the full archive of Crossing the Line episodes here beginning with the earliest conversations and moving forward chronologically.

If you’re interested in:

• how grooming and manipulation actually work
• how schools can recognize warning signs earlier
• how systems can respond more effectively
• and how survivor voices are shaping reform

I hope you’ll listen along.

These conversations are thoughtful, candid, and often deeply illuminating. And they remind us of something important: The more we understand, the better we can protect students.

You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and watch on YouTube.