The former teacher saying what school has made normal.

Alanna Gallo is a former public school teacher, the author of Uninfluenceable, and a secular homeschooling mom of four. After eleven years and more than 2,000 students, she writes and speaks about what school has made normal for kids, and how parents can build a better childhood at home.

Alanna Gallo is an author, educator and education consultant who spent eleven years teaching middle and high school English in US public schools, where she taught more than 2,000 students. She holds an M.Ed. from the University of Southern California. Her book, Uninfluenceable: A Guide to Raising Confident Kids in a Trend-Driven, Social-Media-Fueled World, helps parents raise children who know themselves in a world built to sell to them. A secular homeschooling mom of four, she writes about school, screens and childhood for a community of more than 50,000 parents on Instagram, and advises children’s ed-tech companies on designing for real child development.

Alanna Gallo is an author, educator and education consultant who writes and speaks about what school, screens and culture are doing to childhood, and what parents can do about it. She spent eleven years teaching English in US public schools, mostly to ninth graders, and taught more than 2,000 students before leaving the classroom because of what she was watching happen to the kids in front of her. She holds an M.Ed. from the University of Southern California. Her book, Uninfluenceable: A Guide to Raising Confident Kids in a Trend-Driven, Social-Media-Fueled World, gives parents research-backed tools for raising children who know themselves before the algorithm decides for them. Alanna homeschools her four children, who attended Montessori preschool and never went to public school, and the family has worldschooled across nine countries over the past four years. Her work has appeared in Scary Mommy, Parents, Verywell Family, Mom.com and What’s Up Moms. She also advises children’s ed-tech and education companies on building products that honor child development.