Personal Post: Some (Very Small) Small Silver Linings

Personal Post: Some (Very Small) Small Silver Linings

Honestly, silver linings feel hard to come by around here these days. I’m grateful to be healthy, to have a job that can pivot to online delivery, and to escape into nature. I’ve been next level adulting with some quick win household stuff, like, you know, shaving my...
More Together Students: Weekly Worksheets for Your Class!

More Together Students: Weekly Worksheets for Your Class!

Well, based on your love for Chrystie’s kids, we thought another Together Student post was in order. We came across this student-facing Weekly Worksheet from the folks at Gem Innovation Prep in Idaho, and we LOVE IT. Sonya L., their Director of Curriculum, Assessment,...
Together Student (and Parent!) Learn-From-Home Edition

Together Student (and Parent!) Learn-From-Home Edition

My interest in Together Students continues to grow, as evidenced by learnings here, here, and here. So when my Together Leader co-host, Chrystie, popped up early during our last online class and showed me her children’s Learn-From-Home flexy situation, I was ALL EARS....

September Together Tips: Resting, Recharging & Resetting

Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Hi. Just hi. How ARE you? Between Hurricane Laura’s devastation, Jacob Blake’s unconscionable shooting, and being pulled back and forth between virtual-non-virtual-hybrid-synchronous-all-of-the-things-school delays, it is too...
Fighting Screen Fatigue: Steve’s Hand-Drawn Weekly Worksheet

Fighting Screen Fatigue: Steve’s Hand-Drawn Weekly Worksheet

Anyone else feeling a little more, well. . . paper-ish, these days? Spending countless hours in my office staring at Zoom grid faces, I’m longing for a little more analog. And after speaking to hundreds of you in my online classes, I know you are, too. Imagine my...