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  • Chuck comes to school!

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    Today I had the delight of bringing two wonderful friends to school, not-so-secretly hoping that they would fall in love and want to awaken their potential ALFs. Vincent and Chuck both live in Rhode Island now, working to build and run summer programs on a tall ship, but I met them first in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.…

  • Body Worlds!!!

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    Thanks to curiosity of students, generosity of parents, and agility of facilitators, I had the opportunity to support a really interesting field trip this week. @RyanShollenberger , @douglasawesome , @likeaboss , @kingthanos , @FailSpy, Elijah, and I went to the Body Worlds exhibit at Discovery Times Square. It was so exciting to get to go…

  • The week it got cold.

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    Recipe for (mostly) quiet productivity (of the most joyful kind): Ingredients 2 visiting students 1 guest observer @Ninablanco and @Tomis back from travels Geva, with many offerings 🙂 Foam puzzle-piece mats for forts A culture committee meeting A field trip to Body Worlds An arduino + Nintendo controller project Splatter paint project New woodshop projects…

  • Scribbles for Grammar

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    Douglas has been playing this game called Scribblenauts that I’m really enjoying. His character gets missions to do minor helpful things for people he encounters and larger heroic things for super-heroes who summon him. To play, Douglas types in nouns to conjure different items he wants. He can also click on objects and characters to…

  • Ink on my hands

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    I started a new project this week. Writing every day for November reminded me how much I love creative work (the invisible kind I do at school, but also the kinds with more concrete outcomes), so over the weekend I bought a sketchbook. It’s my first sketchbook since high school, and I’m nervous each time…