Tag Archives: COVID19

How to REALLY be Prepared for the 2020-2021 School Year

Are you ready for probable school closures? If schools remain open, are you prepared for that, too? We teachers must be ready for both eventualities. I wrote a concerned email to a supervisor earlier this summer expressing my worry that … Continue reading

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The Bomb, Duck-and-Cover Drills, and You (today, right now)

Burt the Turtle is getting old enough that he requires an introduction where for a long time none would have been needed. In the 1950s through the 1980s, there existed a real threat that everything on Earth would end in … Continue reading

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