It’s been half a year since the last “normal” day. The morning message on the board in the classroom I worked in as a behavior interventionist earlier this year. This was six months ago today and ended up being the last day of in-person school for the 2019/2020 school year. Got up. Went to work …
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Shelf Life for Summer 2020, pt. 2
Books Bought/Found/GivenOcculture: The Unseen Forces that Drive Culture Forward by Carl AbrahamsonDevolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max BrooksGhost Cat by Beverly ButlerSkeleton Man by Joseph BruchacWhite Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiangeloThe Circle by Dave EggersHow to Fight/Love/Relax/Walk by Thich Nhat …
Shelf Life for Summer 2020, pt. 1
Books In ProgressHow To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. KendiHard Times by Studs TerkelTime Loops by Eric Wargo Books FinishedDevolution by Max BrooksRising Strong by Brené BrownOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen KingBoom-shacka-lacka by William MarquessA Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry What’s this called again? Oh yeah. Writing. Lets’s give …
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW, episode 7: Big, Chunky, and Easy to Hold
It’s a new episode of the podcast. Summer has begun, and with it comes adventures with baby raccoons, the return of live music, and the arrival of Troy’s new single, I Miss You. Troy and Ethan also discuss the power of words and being mindful of their meanings, along with more thoughts on the Black …
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A Must-Read for Educators, Parents & Pretty Much Everybody Else, Too
When everything is urgent, nothing is urgent, right? Like, urgent becomes the new normal – like the past few months, for example – and it takes something truly electrifying to shock the system. On Saturday, July 25, 2020, exactly that sort of shock was zapped into the system by Brigid Nease, Superintendent of the Harwood …
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