Jessica Solomon, M.Ed., M.Div is an educator, writer, and researcher whose work centers on one enduring question: How do humans make meaning—and how can our learning environments honor that?

Her scholarship lives at the intersection of relational pedagogy, metaphysics, cognitive development, and lived experience. She studies how meaning becomes perceptible, how people learn through relationship and coherence, and how educational and clinical systems can either support or distort this human capacity.

Jessica is the Founding Director of The Lyric Institute, a research and writing initiative dedicated to restoring meaning to the center of human experience. Through this work, she develops conceptual frameworks (including Lyric Metaphysics and Relational Intelligence), writes across genres, and designs tools to help educators, clinicians, and communities cultivate clarity, belonging, and humane forms of learning.

Educator & Curriculum Designer

For more than two decades, Jessica has taught and designed curriculum across grades 3–8, specializing in interdisciplinary humanities, inquiry-based learning, and meaning-centered pedagogy. She leads grade-level teams, mentors teachers, and partners with families to support children’s development academically, socially, and relationally.

Her classroom work is animated by a simple, radical belief: children are intelligent meaning-makers, and schools should be places where their clarity deepens, their questions matter, and their experiences are held with respect.

Researcher & Writer

Jessica’s research embraces both intellectual rigor and lived experience. She writes about:

• Meaning-making and intelligibility

• Relational intelligence and human coherence

• Misrecognition and Contact

• The ethics of witnessing and interpretation

• Curricular design and the future of learning

• AI literacy and meaning-centered education

Her books and articles span educational philosophy, metaphysics, clinical phenomenology, and public-facing work on learning, clarity, and human development.

She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) with a focus on the Ontology of Intelligibility, extending her inquiry into the ethical, pastoral, and metaphysical dimensions of human experience.

The Lyric Institute

Founded by Jessica in 2025, The Lyric Institute serves as the home for her ongoing research, writing, and educational design. The Institute explores the architecture of meaning, the relational nature of learning, and the conditions under which human beings encounter coherence, truth, and belonging.

Mission: Restoring meaning to the center of human experience.

Through books, frameworks, and curricula, the Institute supports individuals and institutions seeking deeper, more humane approaches to learning, healing, and becoming.

Work Beyond the Classroom

Jessica collaborates with schools, organizations, and educators on:

• Meaning-centered curriculum design

• Relational pedagogy

• AI literacy and ethical integration

• Coherence-based assessment

• Teacher development and instructional coaching

• Thought leadership and public scholarship

Her work bridges the conceptual and the practical, grounding big ideas in lived educational realities.

Why Lyric?

“Lyric” names the quality of human experience that is felt, relational, and meaningful—the dimension often left out of educational and clinical frameworks. Jessica’s work restores this dimension as central, not peripheral, to how we understand children, learning, and the human mind.