Fall is in the air! Can you feel it? I can. The fall soccer season has started with two games this past week, one against a nearby rival last night, ending in a tie. The afternoon was warm but by 7 p.m., when the varsity team started to play, it was rapidly getting cooler. We…
Do you know what it means to look at something through your mind’s eye? Recently, I came across this term in a book I have been slowly reading on Dyslexia. It was a book I bought out of interest in the subject and kept in my car for reading while I was waiting for soccer…
Over the coming weeks, I will slowly be returning to educationally based posts. After all, information and enrichment are both part of my purpose for writing. The sharing of ideas, knowledge learned from past experiences, current trends and issues in education, and my own return to classes for the fall semester will give me plenty…
A Photograph Licensing exams Nursing Boards A Text GRE exams Certification exams MAP Testing A Tweet Emails Course grades A Driver’s License A post on social media Responses to a post on social media The News Online Newspapers & News Magazines Medical Laboratory Testing What do these all have in common? Immediacy. During some recent…
#BRAVEWARNINGLABELCHALLENGE – Carol Labuzzetta If I came with a warning label, this is what it would say: WARNING: Extreme intensity on topics inciting passion, Including, but not limited to: The Environment, Monarch Butterflies, K-12 Education, Transformation, Equity, and Giftedness. Proceed with conversational caution, knowing the connection might last several hours, or result in overflowing emotions with unintelligible speech…
This weekend is the summer festival weekend, A.K.A. Kornfest, for our town! There are carnival rides, a car show, bands in the beer tent, fireworks, funnel cakes, a fun run, a lengthy parade, and now a craft show. Over the eighteen years we have lived here, the festivities have grown. It is a large, anticipated,…
It is the end of summer. This means running around for school clothes and classroom supplies. Over the years, I have found it easier to just take my boys on separate days. So, yesterday I finished up by taking my 17-year-old out for his turn. We spent a couple of hours in places like Dick’s…
During the last week, I have resumed care of my monarchs in very stages of their life cycle. Right now, I have the following: 8 Chyrsalises 4 Larvae in J hooks 4 Larvae in the earliest instar stages 2 eggs What is unusual about this year, besides getting a very late start to finding monarch…
Some areas across the nation have already started back to school! I know this from listening to the news, reading social media, belonging to a teacher blog-writing community, and talking with friends. Here, in the upper mid-west, our summer is not quite over, but it is close. Most districts have two to three more weeks…