For this year’s Thanksreading series, I’m exploring my development as a reader and giving thanks for the books and people who made me the lover of books that I am today. "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that …
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Six Months Later …
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 …
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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Care Package for Saturday, June 13, 2020
For Jenn Poetry: A House Called Tomorrow by Alberto RíosYou are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen –You are a hundred wild centuriesAnd fifteen, bringing with youIn every breath and in every stepRead more Song In My Head: Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI Art: Harrison Fisher’s Graduation Day Photo credit: pinterest.com …
An Unsolicited Commencement Address To the Graduating Class of 2020
To the Graduating Class of 2020,I’m not here to waste your time, so let’s not beat around the bush. This sucks. You’re not graduating from high school in the way you’ve spent the last dozen or so years anticipating. You’re not seated in an auditorium, gym, or park, your family, friends, and community crowded around …
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