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Distance Learning Teacher: Thoughts from the Front Lines

Distance Learning Teacher: Thoughts from the Front Lines

This is part of an occasional series featuring educators’ thoughts on teaching and learning during our current health crisis. Breann Sai is from Modesto, California and has taught Kindergarten for thirteen years at Hart-Ransom Elementary School, most recently as a distance learning teacher. She resides in Modesto with her husband, two daughters, and her cat and dog. Connect with her… Read More

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Rethink Distance Learning:  Recalibrate Your Expectations

Rethink Distance Learning: Recalibrate Your Expectations

This is part of an ongoing series on the state of education during our current health crisis. As a career educator and parent of a high-needs, non-verbal kid (as well as highly-independent, academically-inclined teen) here are some of my thoughts on distance learning.   In a word, you need to recalibrate. Distance learning feels “too easy” for some kids, and “too… Read More

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School Reopening:  Society Needs to Face the Truth

School Reopening: Society Needs to Face the Truth

From an occasional series featuring educators’ thoughts on school reopening in Fall 2020. Alison Hoeman is an ELL teacher in Des Moines Iowa. She has taught elementary school, middle school, and ELL for the past 20 years…. 13 years in 3 US states, and 7 years in 3 foreign countries. In her “free” time, she runs “Des Moines Refugee Support”,… Read More

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The Value of Teachers:  Dear American People

The Value of Teachers: Dear American People

Thank you, Sarah Stevenson Krejci, for putting this into words – the value of teachers. And yes, please share. Sarah Stevenson Krejci has been teaching for 23 years. 22 years in Kindergarten and first grade, and one year in third grade. She teaches at Ruth Grimes Elementary in the Colton Joint Unified School District. She lives in Bloomington, California with… Read More

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Can Schools Open in the Fall?:  Let’s Be Bold AND Safe

Can Schools Open in the Fall?: Let’s Be Bold AND Safe

As most educators – and parents – transition to a “summer” that feels only marginally different than past three months, many are asking, can schools open in the fall? As both a parent and an educator, I am asking can schools open in the fall? I want to go back to school, but I want to be safe. I want… Read More

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The End of the School Year 2020:  A May Like No Other

The End of the School Year 2020: A May Like No Other

The end of the school year 2020 has meant a May like no other. For more than four decades, I have been a student, a teacher, a counselor – and sometimes two or more of these at a time.  My husband is also a career educator.  Our children are school-aged.  Our entire marriage and family structure has been built on… Read More

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Another 10 Ways to Refresh Yourself – While Staying In

Another 10 Ways to Refresh Yourself – While Staying In

Looking for more pick-me-ups while staying in?  Here are some more ideas to brighten your day – even your week.   In the Kitchen: Ways to Refresh Yourself Make a Cocktail When you’re at home, the feeling that it’s 5 o’clock somewhere – combined with no need for a designated driver and Zoom – means that almost any hour is cocktail… Read More

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15 Quick Ways to Refresh Yourself

15 Quick Ways to Refresh Yourself

Do you need quick ways to refresh yourself? Do you need a break?  Something you can do without leaving home (obviously) that can help refresh you and reset the trajectory of your day.  As we shelter in place, it’s important to focus on what you can do, rather than what you can’t. The good news is that there is plenty… Read More

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Pandemic Education:  Rethinking the Classroom – and Our Humanity

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

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