Tag: school

  • Oh! I found an old blog post draft on my hard drive (from 10.17)

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    Monday didn’t really feel like a Monday, since we rolled into it after having ALF-ed through the weekend upstate. I love getting to play with wonderful adults and hang in beautiful Chatham, but there’s always a point where I become impatient to come back to the kids. We filled the weekly schedule board! We cheered…

  • Whirlwind and Peace

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    I’m curled up, warm in a sunny window, a little bit amazed at how much organized chaos filled the beginning of the week. This weekend, I had a guest and a staff working day (in which @ryanshollenberger and @tomis gave the bathroom an amazing make-over!). We rolled into the week Tuesday morning with the arrival…

  • Alchemist Book Discussion: Part 2

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    @failspy and I both finished reading The Alchemist over the weekend, so we reconvened today for philosophy part two. Right away, Javair found the line that evokes ALC/alt.ed. philosophy: “There is only one way to learn and that’s through action” (p 125). Ummmm….yes. Were we both newer to this actually-thinking-about-industrial-schooling business, we would probably have…

  • The Alchemist: part 1 discussion

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    @failspy and I are reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It’s been seven years and several lives since I last read it, so Javair’s invitation to revisit and discuss it appealed to me immediately. Today we sat for an hour with the book, our notes (his mental, mine written), and Wikipedia for our first “mini-philosophy” about…

  • Last week before the break!!!

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    My week started gettin’ agile Sunday evening, when @bear and the Cloudhouse crew arrived at my apartment to join Brandon and I and our Polish quantum physicist friend for the biggest sleepover I’ve had in years 🙂 Monday, the weather was BEAUTIFUL! So a group of us took off to climb rocks, picnic, draw, hide-and-seek,…