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Headed Back and Letting Go
My fifth grader is headed back to un-zoom schooling to be motivated by three-dimensional mentors and curious curators.
A Fun Survey Question for Educators, and Introducing "Recharge & Repair"
If you're an educator and you're heading back to some form of school — whether remote, live, or combo platter — you may have only micro-seconds to offer to social media today. And at the risk of coming across like the friend who wants one of your fries as soon as you set your plate down, I'm going to ask to borrow one so I can ask you a quick survey question — but it'll be fun, I promise!
Homeschool Is Canceled Today
Here’s the story of the day I had to cancel pandemic homeschool. I woke up stressed and CNN-obsessed and announced over the dad-loudspeaker to my fourth grader …
Homeschooling with Tim & Bailey #3: A Message to Our New Favorite Graphic Novel Author, Svetlana Chmakova
Our third entry in my homeschooling series has to do with both reading and gratitude. A few days ago my daughter and I sent the following message to an author we've recently discovered.
Homeschooling with Tim & Bailey #2: Your School, Your Rules
Here's the second installment of my new series, Home Schooling: Assist and Persist. So, after we warmed up by reading some jokes from one of our joke books — dog-ear this practice for a post coming soon — I asked my kid what rules should our school have. Her look was priceless.
Homeschooling with Tim & Bailey #1: Nature Walks and a Quirky Squirrel
Dear fellow educators: Wow. Yesterday, along with millions of families around the country, we started our pandemic homeschooling. So I thought I'd share some of our ideas and experiences here.
Talking About Early College for Teen Moms with Cynthia and Rosalinda at STECC
Need something uplifting in your day? Take three minutes and watch these two amazing women talk about the work they do helping teen moms go to college and complete their degrees so they can keep moving forward in their lives. I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the 4th Annual South Texas Early College Conference (STECC) in South Padre Island, organized by the Region One Education Service Center in Texas …
Skipping and Twirling, Youth Sports and Norway, and My Dad
Skipping and twirling, Norway, and my Dad — that's what I'd like to talk about today. Don't worry, they fit together by the end. But here's how it starts: I told my ten-year-old daughter that she had to pick a team sport to join.
How the Superheroes of Special Education Are Charging Minds and Changing Economies
I start out by saying, "I wish I'd been taught in school the way Special Educators approach their work every day. And not just in kindergarten or third grade — I wish I'd been taught that way in college, too." I'm talking about the way Special Educators take on so many different roles: acting not just as instructors, but as mentors, mind-coaches, and multi-sensory mix-masters of engagement. And so much more. I'm delivering my keynote for a meeting of the New Hampshire Association of Special Education Administrators (NHASEA).
Haircuts for Mental Health? There's More Than One Way to Tackle Stigma
What do pro basketball player Kevin Love and pro football player The Gronk have in common with actor John Hamm and Kristen Bell (aka Veronica Mars)? No, they're not launching a new morning talk show called "Love Gronk Hamm Bell," although I'd probably watch that. But they are all talking about something important — working to dispel the stigma around mental health care.