Beautiful blanket of snow outside Abrome on Monday morning Day 89 of this ridiculous pandacademic year was something extra. When I woke up the windchill was -8 degrees. I wrote the following message to families when I formally cancelled in-person meet ups…
read moreFriday was the last day of the second week of the sixth cycle and day 88 of the pandacademic year. When we created our pandemic plan for this year we included a section on inclement weather, since we expected to be outdoors…
read moreAnother inclement weather day Thursday, February 11th was day 87 of the pandacademic year and our second inclement weather day of 2021. Not meeting in-person seemed like a given given the temperature, wind, and rain in the forecast the night before, and…
read moreOur first inclement weather day of the 2021 calendar year Wednesday was going to hopefully be our first in-person day of the calendar year, and of the last two cycles! Unfortunately, nature decided to crush our hopes of being back together again….
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…
read moreTrending 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…
read moreFriday 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…
read moreThursday 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…
read moreWednesday 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,…
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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