On Tuesday, I drove out to the Bee Cave City Hall for the last day of early voting. I have voted early multiple times at that location over the past seven years for a variety of races up to congressional and presidential,…
read moreDay 104 of the pandacademic year looked to be a very lightly attended one. One Learner would be out the rest of the week from one cell for a family commitment, three others would be out from the other cell for a…
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The Abrome Day began like so many before it, I woke up and I began to prepare for a day that would likely be completely different than the one before it. However, instead of heading to the drop-off spot that gave us…
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I’m going to briefly explain why we are part of the Agile Learning Centers and Flying Squads networks. While schools and learning community networks often say that they believe in Self-Directed Education and that they want children to be in charge of…
read moreQuickly moving toward risk stage level four On Tuesday, February 9th, I woke up and looked at the latest Covid-19 indicators for Austin and saw that we were perhaps only a couple of days away from breaking into risk stage level four…
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Trending toward stage level four On Sunday morning I sent out the weekly update to families telling them that it was likely that Austin Public Health was going to drop the city back down to risk stage level four in February, and…
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Friday morning was day 83 of the pandacademic year and the last day of the first week of cycle six. Still remote because of local Covid conditions. I started the morning meeting with a review of the calendar. Then I highlighted two…
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Thursday was day 82 of the pandacademic year and Facilitator Lauren opened the meeting with a review of practices and then opened it up for people to share announcements. Then each of us shared what we would like our first act to…
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Wednesday was day 81 of the pandacademic year. When Facilitator Ariel started the meeting a Learner jumped in and demanded that he lead the meeting. When we are in small groups meeting in-person we typically ask who wants to lead the meeting,…
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Tuesday was our 80th day of the pandacademic year, meaning we still have about 55% of our in-session days with Learners left. We have about the same number of days as conventional schools, but because we have more breaks during the year,…
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Morning meeting Monday would be the first day of cycle six but it would not be the first remote day to start off a cycle during this pandacademic year. Just like last cycle, Austin is in risk stage level five for Covid-19…
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Not being in school is a start. I’ve seen multiple friends sharing a blog post over the past couple of days that states that children should be outside for 4-6 hours every day. The post was shared on the 1000 Hours Outside…
read moreDay 78 of the pandacademic year would be the final day of the cycle for the Learners, while the Facilitators would be meeting for an all-day professional development on Wednesday. This fifth cycle was our most challenging one of the year as…
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Monday would have normally been the first of our two remote days at the end of the cycle that allows us to have a nine day break from meeting in-person between cycles, but since we are still in risk stage level five…
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Day 76 was the last day of our last full week of cycle five, and it would have been the last in-person day of the cycle had we not been in Covid-19 risk stage level five in Central Texas. The following Monday…
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