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Do you need easy appetizer recipes? Are you ready to have a few people over for a physically distanced social gathering? Do you want easy appetizer recipes to serve – ideally in individual portions? Here are some easy appetizer recipes to share with friends and family – no matter the distance. Flavored Popcorn Start with easy, DIY microwave popcorn, by… Read More
Do you need to make time for some work at home self care? While many professionals have long had the opportunity to occasionally – or even regularly – work from home, the work at home world is new to most K-12 educators. Unless you work at an online school or alternative program, then your work has likely compelled you to… Read More
What are your Trader Joe’s fall favorites? Do you stalk the “new” section like I do, using it as a starting point around which to build the rest of your cart? The new item section at Trader Joe’s tends to explode with options in the fall and winter – making it one of the most interesting times to shop there. … Read More
When Reopening Schools Hybrid Model is not Sustainable is part of an occasional series including educator perspectives on distance learning and reopening schools. A Hybrid Model of Reopening Schools is Not Sustainable Let me be clear, distance learning is not ideal. I do not know a single educator who has spent their training or career desiring to teach TK-12 students… Read More
It’s time to be rethinking self care – something that frequently lands at the bottom of educators’ to-do lists, and even more so during our current health crisis. Part of an occasional series featuring educator perspectives on school reopening and distance learning. Jennifer Hettel is a school psychologist and intervention counselor at Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, CA. As a… Read More
Do you need hot weather dinner ideas? Here are some ways to get dinner on the table – without heating up your kitchen. Late summer heatwaves can zap your energy, and make it hard to think about eating, let alone cooking. But unless you live alone – in which case, you can embrace the heatwave weight loss plan – you… Read More
Easy Vacation Meals: Enjoy At Home or Away When you travel as a family, it can be expensive to eat out for every meal. If you choose to stay in a vacation home, you typically have access to a full kitchen which allows for meal preparation. But while you want to save money, you certainly don’t want to forget where… Read More
The Color Street Fall 2020 Catalog is here. This year has been unprecedented. If you’re at all like me, it feels like a deluge of challenges and changes that have just not stopped coming at you. In the midst of the chaos, I have found that taking a few minutes out for self-care has helped me to regain some sense… Read More
Should you homeschool? More than any other year in recent memory this question is popping up in social media feeds, text threads, and Zoom meet-ups. Here are some thoughts on the topic from Heather Renfro, an experienced educator who chose to homeschool one of her children for several years. Connect with her at hrenfro@gmail.com. Part of an occasional series featuring… Read More
