Taking the Common Core standards outside.
When this whole Coronavirus thing was just getting started our schools closed early. I had to run to the pharmacy where I encountered a bit of foreshadowing on how this quarantine business was going to play out. A family stood in the checkout line, kids clutching drug store toys. Everyone had dyed his or her […]
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This past weekend, my daughter and I emerged from quarantine to take our daily hike, this time to the neighborhood market two miles away to buy ingredients we couldn’t find at our regular grocery store: rice and white flour. On the walk home, my daughter recalled a victory garden/wartime rationing display we saw last summer. […]
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This past Monday I heard about another teacher whose band played in downtown Sacramento over the weekend. Then our school psychologist mentioned he was heading out to sign books (his own) at a pop-up bookstore one of our school counselors had created with his wife. Me? I was sleepily plodding through my Monday after staying […]
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