Tag: school

  • Fundraising!

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    I’ve had plans for some time to start a crowdfunding campaign. The idea showed up last year, when I wished we had funds to cover more pricey field trips so that all students who wanted to go could do so easily. Since we’re a private school, we don’t receive state funding and so are dependent…

  • Blurry Week

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    Happy first week of Autumn!!!! The air is chilly and the leaves are changing. And I have seasonal allergy sniffles; time for honey and oregano oil (@kingthanos’ favorite). I got sucked into some legally, technicalish things Monday after Set-the-Week, while also trying to keep a pulse on the tempers of a few folks who entered…

  • 9/21

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    Monday I lived in the front and top of my head. I started a list of keeping-a-school-running tasks/logistics/legal requirements that I’ll use as a reference next summer, so I can get a bunch of admin work done before the actual start of school (unlike this year…where I wasn’t organized because I didn’t realize quite how…

  • First full week!

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    And it was a visiting week! AAAAND it still feels likes summer outside! I…did a bunch of paperwork this week. Logged everyone’s permission forms and health forms and applied for new metro cards and made a parent directory and started working on student ID cards… That said, I also got to paint, do improv games…

  • Week One, Year Three

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    That summer went fast…Colorado, dancing poets, an abundance of ALFs, mountains, paint, scaffolding, writing, music…It was fantastic. I’m excited to have a regular rhythm to my weeks again, though. And to be back with our spectacular young people. Monday and Tuesday, Ryan and I were in the space to get it cleaned up. We were…