Virtual Communities are Communities
Listen…I get it. I’ll be the first to bemoan that kids need to play outside. I’m an obsessive reader that has a bad habit of whining, “most people today don’t read a single book a year.”
When I was a kid, we spent time pretending we were in Narnia. We spent weeks pretending were characters in The Bridge to Terabithia. Well minus the death.
I also grew up on the internet…
Summer Camp During Covid｜Three Things for Teachers
I finished my last week of Summer Camp. I’ve been our camp director at Dinoto Karate Center for years, but this camp season was different… because coronavirus.
I’m still processing everything that I’ve learned—a book will be coming out eventually. There are a few things that I need to share with my teacher friends before I have time to write the book. They are entering the battlefield that I just left. I cannot neglect them. I am not afforded the opportunity of time.
To the Class of 2020
This isn’t how Graduating is meant to happen. After four-ish years of managing academics, career, health, and a social life—everything’s switched off. Okay, I’m exaggerating about the social life. All the final moments that were supposed to happen, just won’t. At least not in the expected way. Maybe for you that’s commencement. Maybe it’s a formal or a theater production. There was something that mattered to you if you choose to admit it or not. For me, it was simply watching one more spring pass through a surprisingly beautiful urban campus.