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Spinning My Wheels on Facebook
Wasting time on social media is my drug of choice. If I am tired and want an escape, I scroll through my timeline. If I am anxious or obsessing about something, Facebook is my mindless escape. The thing is during the COVID-19 staying-at-home time, I am often overstressed or anxious about things. I don’t have a whole lot of time to myself and we are disconnected from family. The kids need to do school from home and Andy and I are still working. It’s a lot, so my need for a quick and easy escape is magnified. The thing is, when I crave Facebook, I am looking for fun and…
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Planning for the First Days of School
Here in California, we will be doing distance learning for the foreseeable future. Andy and I will have four kids home and learning, which in the spring time was very stressful and haphazard. As the first day of school approaches, I am looking back to my time as a teacher and instructional coach to plan out for a successful beginning of the school year. When I was a teacher, the rule of thumb that was thrown around was “Don’t teach anything the first month.” Of course, teaching and learning was happening every day, but the phrase was a reminder that the first month of school the reading and math are…