Okay, before Jonathan Mann just seemed kind of hip and sweet and nerdy cool to me. But now I *know* that he is and that — and totally awesome! He wrote a song today for a homeschooling boy in Korea! more about “Soren’s Song – Song for an 8 year old…“, posted with vodpod Update: [...]
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Soren’s Song – Song for an 8 year old Homeschooler
Posted in Homeschooling, Interesting, tagged Homeschooling on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eastern Parent Group Issues Statement
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, curriculum, education, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, highly gifted, humanities, magnet program, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy, parent involvement, red zone, School, teen, verbally gifted on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When the decision was announced that Eastern Middle School would be moving from an eight period block schedule to a seven period schedule, most parents in the school community were caught off-guard. It seems like a rather mundane detail given all of the elements that go into making a school a school. But it’s not. [...]
I Am Just A Little Post-It Note
Posted in Interesting, tagged Homeschooling on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jonathan Mann is writing a song and producing a music video *every day.* He recently went viral with an ode to Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, but he does all kinds of topics…and take requests at his website, www.rockcookiebottom.com. Love the creativity and earnestness. And I wonder what he was like as a kid!
Will You Be Doing “Earth Hour?”
Posted in Interesting on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We will! Today (Saturday March 28), from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. is Earth Hour. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a [...]
Forensic Science. A Sample.
Posted in Homeschooling, tagged curriculum, Homeschooling on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So just how does this not-going-to-school-thing work, you might wonder. As I mentioned, I have a friend who is facilitating a co-op homeschool class on Forensic Science and generously offered to include M., whom she’s known since she was a “bump.” Here’s what they did on Autopsy Day. Autopsy Lesson March 17, 2009 Objectives: – [...]
AKMuckraker – In Solidarity
Posted in Home Life, School, tagged election, mudflats, privacy on March 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Readers from back in the fall know that I was a little (ahem) obsessed, shall we say, about the election in general and a certain governor from Alaska in particular. Like bazillions of others, I was stunned by the announcement of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate and promptly entered “Sarah Palin” into the [...]
When in Doubt, Start a Committee
Posted in School, tagged advocacy, education, elementary school, high school, Jerry Weast, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy on March 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Better yet, start a really, really big committee guaranteed to be positively paralyzed by procedure. How big? Big. Forty-four people big. That’s the size of the new MCPS K-12 Mathematics Joint Work Group. (And I thought the AEI Advisory Committee on Accelerated and Enriched Instruction was bad!) You can check out the membership here. A [...]
A Record Day
Posted in School, tagged PTA on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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