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A Beloved Beagle

Posted by Diane Badden on November 22, 2019 | 4 comments

Thanksgiving is less than one week away, which means a well-deserved mini vacation for students and teachers. Thanksgiving is a time for traditions and one of my faves is tuning into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I rarely see the parade in its entirety, however this year I’m hoping to see the newest Snoopy balloon….

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Current Events, Language Arts, Teachers and Teaching, Vocabulary

Vacay, Sesh, and Inspo

Posted by Diane Badden on October 25, 2019 | 4 comments

In case you missed the news, Merriam-Webster added 530 new words to the dictionary in September. These words range from serious to playful to technical to informal. More than 4,000 revisions to definitions, pronunciations, and such were also added. Vacay, sesh, and inspo are fun and informal. If you don’t have the energy to say…

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Current Events, Entertainment, Teachers and Teaching

Bye, Bye, Barnum & Bailey

Posted by Diane Badden on January 16, 2017 | 3 comments

I admit I was one of those who gasped when I learned that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey will end all of its performances this May after a 146-year run. Now let me say this. I am an animal lover, so please don’t blast me for feeling sentimental. As crazy as it sounds, I…

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Current Events, Teachers and Teaching

Yawn!

Posted by Diane Badden on March 14, 2016 | 2 comments

Across much of the nation this morning, 6 AM rolled around at 5 AM. Ordinarily, I’m a glass half-full kind of a gal. So I’ll start by saying I’m thrilled at the prospect of having additional daylight hours in the evenings. Yes, I am. This morning, however, I would have given away my brand-new set…

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Current Events, Inspiration and Motivation, Teachers and Teaching

Powerful Words

Posted by Diane Badden on May 15, 2015 | 4 comments

At this very moment, I feel inspired and humbled, privileged and thankful, sorrowful and hopeful. And it’s all because of the words of Eunice Akoth, the sixth grader pictured here. This 12-year-old captivated the audience at the recent Women in the World Summit with her words, a response to her life growing up in Kibera,…

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Current Events, Life After School

Change Your Clocks?

Posted by Diane Badden on October 31, 2014 | 3 comments

I am so looking forward to an extra hour of sleep this Sunday morning. If you live in Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas, or the Virgin Islands, you won’t get this extra hour. But here’s the deal—you didn’t lose an hour of sleep in March either! So, really, what’s up with…

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Current Events

The Deadly Swing Set Debate

Posted by Kim Brugger on October 10, 2014 | 6 comments

I love to swing. The swing set was always my favorite piece of playground equipment as a child—and as an adult! Just last week, I was visiting my hometown of Midland, Michigan, and walked to my old elementary school where I hopped on a swing. I find swinging to be therapeutic—it’s probably the soothing back-and-forth…

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Current Events, Inspiration and Motivation, Teachers and Teaching

Paying It Forward

Posted by Diane Badden on June 2, 2014 | 4 comments

When I first heard about the money drops in San Francisco and Los Angeles, my ears perked right up. Someone is stuffing bills in envelopes and then giving the envelopes away? Wow, inconceivable! Is it a brilliant idea for a person to share his or her wealth in this way? I can’t decide. I keep…

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Current Events, Ideas, Teacher Appreciation

Perfection Is Boring

Posted by Todd Savelle on March 11, 2014 | 1 comment

In The LEGO Movie, they sing that “everything is awesome” because, in the little brick world in which the movie begins, everything about life operates in such a way that even mistakes seem wonderful in the rare instances when they occur. And by rare, of course, they mean almost never. The real world in which…

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Current Events, STEM, Technology

Rate Your Tech Savvy

Posted by Todd Savelle on February 6, 2014 | 1 comment

Sometimes I worry that if I go to the beach, some muscle-bound guy carrying the latest awesome smartphone and a sleek new tablet PC is going to kick sand in my face. In a voice that sounds like it was carved from granite by union laborers in mud-caked overalls, he would say, “What’s the matter?…

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