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Categories:  Best Of Stories Image:  Simultaneously, in most places around the globe, children are home, teachers are instructing in a whole new way, and the threat of an unseen virus is at the heart of it all. We scroll through the memes measuring this time akin to Groundhog’s Day; some of us feel safe at home, while others feel ‘stuck’ in a cycle with an unknown ending. Through it all, our students are taking in this new ‘normal’ of sorts. It’s a strange situation, that’s for sure. The majority of the world has never before been faced with something of...

In history, we've been learning about the Black Death.Yep. Serendipity strikes again. My kids are very aware of contagious diseases and quarantines! Honestly, it made COVID 19 seem so trivial to study the bubonic plagues. And it spurred me to look at the Spanish Flu, which keeps on getting compared to COVID, and I realized the Spanish Flu was 200 times worse, with 40 million deaths. Also, so far, the death rates for COVID are within WHO's death rates for a typical flu.Weirdly, that was kind of depressing for me to consider. It made me think "WHY ARE WE DOING THIS!?!" We...

Today's game is SET.This is not a game you want to play if you're looking for something quick or NOT mentally challenging. Let me put it this way - MENSA considers it one of the top games to play.Gameplay:You're trying to identify a "set" of three cards from 12 cards laid out. Each card has a symbol which is a color, has 1/2/3 symbols on the card, and is a different type of shading. A set must be the same feature on each card, or different on each card. It's MUCH more difficult than it sounds!Lay out your twelve cards...

Big Education Ape NPE Grassroots Education Network Invites You to Join! | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-qbH via @dianeravitchTOP POSTS THIS WEEK 5/2/20  ‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch argues in new book that public education advocates have beat back efforts to privatize schools - The Washington Post The real story of New Orleans and its charter schools - The Washington Post Pearson and COVID-19: At Least We Have Connections Academy | deutsch29 NANCY BAILEY: 8 Ways to Save Public School Funding During and After Covid-19 The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic | World Economic Forum KIPP Sinks To...

This post contains affiliate links - using affiliate links from Homeschool Coffee Break helps fuel this blog. One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.we need a distraction ******************** When they're plotting a major heist or an escape in the movies, there's this scene where someone says, "okay, we need a distraction!" Something to take the attention of the guards elsewhere, and allow the thieves to get away with the goods or the prisoners to slip through the bars.We really do need distractions sometimes. A distraction can be...