10 Tips for New High School Students 1. Sleep Teens and sleep have a complicated relationship. Teens are often most awake when their teachers and other adults are starting to nod off. While teens will still need to create routines to support participating in synchronous learning, there is more flexibility. Most hybrid and distance learning high school schedules eschew crack-of-dawn… Read More
Pandemic Education: Rethinking the Classroom – and Our Humanity
What is pandemic education? If you have been a US educator for more than two decades your career has been punctuated by some tremendous events. You may not often reflect on those events- or their impact on education. But one thing that many of us have now is time for reflection – on, among other things, pandemic education. Rethinking the… Read More
How to Get Started on Zoom: 5 Tips and Tricks
As much of the world is adapting to being in quarantine, you may be wondering how to get started on Zoom. Zoom is one of many video-conferencing tools available to the general public. During our “new now” of self-isolation and stay-at-home-orders, Zoom has taken the important step of providing free, uncapped access to all educators. Video conferencing creates an avenue… Read More
8 Simple Stay at Home Ideas for Coronavirus Quarantine
Do you need stay at home ideas for the coronavirus quarantine? As more and more communities take precautions to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), you may find yourself spending more and more time at home with your immediate family. As a special needs family, we are more than used to having a small radius – staying close… Read More