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Planning is Personal
An acquaintance of mine recently posted pictures on social media of all the meals she had prepared for the next month. She said how easy it was. You simply decide all the meals you want to prepare. Then you make lists of all the ingredients you’re going to need. Next, buy all the ingredients, including storage containers...
Stop the Summer Slide
Too late! I’ve already slid. I confess. I’ve been staying up way past my bedtime, watching ridiculous things on Netflix. (Let me save you some time here: Do NOT watch the movie, The Ice Road. Ugh. What a painful two hours of my life I wasted on that one.) As a consequence of staying up, I’ve been sleeping late...
Flexible Seating Makes a Difference
I’m working summer school through the end of July at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. It’s not our home school, and certainly not our home classroom, but we have to make do with what’s available to us. The first thing we did when we were assigned our classroom was to start shoving tables and chairs around to make it more conducive for our needs and for our students’ needs...