Saturday, November 28, 2020

Go Find Some Place New

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Last weekend, my son had an outdoor adventure with a buddy that took me to a regional area I don’t frequently go. It got me off my regular p...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Thanksgiving 2020

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With another holiday here in a pandemic year, things might be a tad different from your typical Turkey Day Traditions.  Regardless of how Th...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

School Decisions in the Time of Covid

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This week—midweek—for a multitude of reasons including a few Covid cases, our Head of School & the Board of Trustees decided that yester...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Planning For a Zero Waste Thanksgiving

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Food waste in America accounts for approximately 30-40% of our food supply. With Thanksgiving ahead and while you are planning your feast fo...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Pixton EDU

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Bitmoji classrooms have been all the rage since the start of remote learning this spring.  From there, teachers started looking into avatar...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Veterans Day 2020

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Veterans Day is always a big deal at our school. My previous one as well. This year with the Covid, we are in hybrid mode at my school, and ...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet

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Sir David Attenborough has a voice like no other. It's richness and distinction have become the voice of animal activism and environment...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Snarky Tea For Me

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About 3 weeks into the new school year, when pandemic-style hybrid back-to-school teaching this fall felt like running triage, a girlfriend ...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Halloween 2020

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Viruses don't tend to consult the calendar when it comes to best timing of when to show up. They also don't take leave near soon eno...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Show Up. Vote.

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I've been watching a lot of The West Wing lately. For whatever reason at the time, I never did watch it first go around (now 2 decades ...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Netflix's Documentary: The Social Dilemma

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Several health podcasts I've been listening to lately have referenced the Netflix documentary " The Social Dilemma ," calling ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

DigCit Week: October 19--23, 2020

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Students at my elementary school this year have become familiar with the often-attributed Superman quote "With great power comes great ...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Falling for Fall

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I was traveling to Western Maryland and West Virginia the first weekend of October. The drive was gorgeous as colors started popping up in t...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Nonpartisan Election Resources

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It's definitely an election year--there's evidence of it everywhere. Not to mention, this year seems heated like never before. Regar...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Ready Resources for Remote & Hybrid Teachers

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Two posts ago, I shared some reflections and resources about how to mentally and emotionally survive these crazy Covid teaching times . I ta...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

TED's Countdown For Climate Change

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10.10.2020 It's a poignant combination of memorable numbers, making for a memorable date ahead for this Saturday, October 10th, from 11 ...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Thoughts a Month Into Hybrid School

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This summer when I was introduced to the idea of "hybrid school" (where half of the kids are in class and half are remote), my fir...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The World Is Your Oyster: Marylanders Grow Oysters Program

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There's a saying that goes like this: "The world is your oyster."  It means you can go anywhere and do anything, you've go...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Climate Change, Coronavirus, & Katherine Hayhoe

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There's a line from the 1996 movie "Jerry Maguire" where Renée Zellweger's character says, "You had me at hello....
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been heavy on my heart and mind since her passing last Friday night. She really has become such an American icon ove...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Blue Mind Days & Hours Outside, Summer 2020

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This is my 3rd summer counting up hours outside , and my 2nd summer monitoring my " Blue Mind Days ."   The former is pretty strai...