I have neglected blogging for much of the last school year, swamped as we have been with new routines. In August 2023, the girls again…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Teaching
Pedagogy and general teaching with (or without) modern technology.
May 12, 2023, marks the end of our 2022-23 academic year for our third-grader. The fifth-grader has only a few assignments remaining, too. We made…
The public school experiment for 2022-23 ran its course by January 26, 2023, when we gave the fifth grader a mental health day at home.…
Educators in elementary and secondary schools need to communicate with parents with clarity and consistency. Communication can be as simple as sending completed assignments home…
Homeschooling Anne goes from 8:30 a.m. in the morning right up through bedtime, with breaks for lunch, snack, and dinner. Since I wake up at…
The back-to-school experiment lasted four days for the little one. By Thursday of the first week, it was clear that this wasn’t a good experience…
Monday, August 15, 2022. Today, our daughters returned to their public school for the first time since March 13, 2020. Yes, I’ll remember those dates.…
After a two-week break from homeschooling, our youngest daughter doesn’t seem to recall the last six months (or more) of knowledge and skills we practiced.…
We have started a major redesign and content refresh of the Tameri Guide for Writers, the parent domain for this blog and several others we…
Computer programming develops problem solving skills, helping students see that all problems — no matter how large — are sets of smaller problems. I’ve promoted…