Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Patrick Dougherty's Latest & Local Environmental Creation

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Beautiful environmental sculptures in basically your backyard are rare and exceptional treats.  That's exactly how I felt as I meandered...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Blue Mind Revisited

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My first official day of summer was last week. No more school days. No more post-planning teacher meetings. Just full on summer after what m...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

A Slew of Summer Fun Ideas

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Summer is here, both in spirit and by way of Summer Solstice, this year on June 20th. The longest day of the year marks the official seasona...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

When Father's Day, Civil War, & the Environment All Intersect

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Father's Day, Civil War, and the Environment are not the typical trio. Not by a long shot. Yet it's funny how this year, in my world...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Mount Recyclemore At G-7

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20,000 pieces of electronic waste all in one place is sizable to begin with.  Put those pieces together in an artistic installation--it cau...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

A Packed Padlet Full of Culturally Responsive Resources

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As the diversity of our classrooms grows and branches out, and as the news headlines continues to crop up with stories of racial, religious,...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Matchmakers For the Environment

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Dating apps are all the craze and have been for years. I know a number of people who have met their future spouse through these--whether it...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Pondering Pandemic School As Summer Approaches & The World Opens Back Up

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As I'm approaching the last remaining days of school, I'm struck in that sandwich time between end of the year craziness and summer ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

The Kid Legend Book Series

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Two of my recent reads were from the Kid Legend Series by David Stabler and Robin Stevenson. This 7-book series focuses on a series of ...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Treasures in Your Pocket

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This image spoke to me today. We all should have treasures in our pockets. A li'l something tied to nature, to the outdoors, to our wild...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Becoming a Solutionary

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I recently read the 2016 book The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries  and it led me searching for more and...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Mr. Greg's Ospreys

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Books are sacred to me. They are magic in your hands, taking you places, becoming gateways of inspiration, enjoyment, insight, and knowledge...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Mark Your Calendars

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By day, I am a technology specialist and my world has a lot of digital components. But I'm still a tried-and-true "paper" girl...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Diversity Surrounds

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Keane State College in New Hampshire is a US Department of Education Green Ribbon School (2017), on the Princeton Review to 375 Green Colleg...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

"Why We Swim" by Bonnie Tsui

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Not terribly long ago, I had a couple long weekend stays visiting my daughter. There were certain parameters to the hotels I chose to stay i...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Happy Mother's Day 2021

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“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

World Password Day: May 6, 2021

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Life never fails to crack me up. A couple months ago I had run across the concept of the first Thursday of May as being the annual date of W...