What do these items have in common? Another great day at the Country School Association of America‘s annual conference! My pictures aren’t so great today as I choose to sit a little further to the side today. I discovered a place in the room with a bit better light overhead and a little less air […]
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Watercolors, New Hampshire, Delaware, and the Beechers
June 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on Watercolors, New Hampshire, Delaware, and the Beechers · Children, Country Schools, eating, Education, Food, Important People, Museums, Play, Teaching & Learning
Tags: art·Beecher·Children·Delaware·DuPont·food·learning·museum·reading·school·teaching·watercolors
Country Schools — Day One
June 12th, 2017 · Comments Off on Country Schools — Day One · Books, Children, Country Schools, Education, Important People, Museums, Shaker, Teaching & Learning
Well, maybe day two depending upon how you count! But, the first whole day of presentations – and wow were they amazing! Twelve presentations were offered throughout the day – one being mine. You choose one of two in each time slot. First was the keynote speaker, Steve Taylor, a farmer, journalist and longtime public […]
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33 and Abigail Adams Eliot
April 30th, 2014 · Comments Off on 33 and Abigail Adams Eliot · 100 Days Project, Education, Important People, Musings, retirement, Teaching & Learning
Tonight brought the evening honoring our local child care providers: we call it the Abigail Adams Eliot Award for local Educator and Administrator. It was a lovely evening with a STEM focus, with tables of local organizations, dinner and a presentation about STEM for early care providers. At one point the moderator asked all those […]
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86 days
March 9th, 2014 · Comments Off on 86 days · 100 Days Project, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, retirement, time, Work
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” ? T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
88 days and adventure
March 5th, 2014 · Comments Off on 88 days and adventure · 100 Days Project, College students, family, Important People, Musings, My Goals, retirement, time, Volunteer, Work
I work with the nicest of folks. On my way out of the building today, I saw one of the Psychology faculty and commented on how little I’d managed to see her this semester, even though she and I are only about six offices apart. It turns out she has quite a heavy teaching load […]
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