Last Tuesday was day 47, the last day of the third cycle of this academic year. It was also our second scheduled remote day of the cycle. Hoping to make the meeting a bit more fun and engaging I invited a 16-year-old…
read moreDay 46 was the first day back from the weekend after our third week of meeting in-person, and the first of our two scheduled remote days for this cycle. We have fourteen remote days scheduled this year so that we can hold…
read moreYesterday was day 16 and the last day of our first cycle of first pandemic year. I say first because it is unlikely that the pandemic will be over by next August. Well, the first pandemic year if you don’t include last…
read moreYesterday was the first of our two planned remote days for the cycle, and the first two of our 14 total planned remote days for the year. We have had, and will have unplanned remote days, as well. For example, we were forced…
read moreAnother rainout thanks to thunderstorms On Wednesday night I sent Abrome families the following message by email: “Currently the forecast tomorrow is all day thunderstorms. I’ll wait until tomorrow morning to make the call but if the forecast then is similar to…
read moreDay five of the academic year was also day one of the second week of the academic year. The first week was all about introducing or reintroducing ourselves to each other, reaffirming our principles and agreements, identifying challenges we had not fully…
read moreOn Friday we wrapped up our first week outdoors. We are now one week into the first of eleven cycles that will run through mid-July. The week was fun, and had lots of learning experiences embedded in it. Some of the fun:…
read moreOne of the reasons we decided to go outside this academic year was so that we could safely be together during this pandemic. We found that connecting over Discord and Zoom was insufficient to meeting our needs as individuals and as a…
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