As educators prepare to send students home for the holiday season and end a successful semester, they are also preparing for a strong start in the New Year. As schools have transitioned between remote, hybrid, and in-person teaching, the use of technology in the classroom continues to grow each year.   The implementation of teaching and learning technology in the classroom is constantly improving, with the intent of building online learning solutions that allow for a

Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. The City sprawled on the other side of the Bridge. White homes and glass monoliths, patches of grass and beach and trees covered the peninsula. From here it looked like a diorama, cut from construction paper and held together

Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. We just wanted to sleep in. But when we woke up, our legs sore from the previous day’s 43 miles, the eerie orange light streaming through the window caught our eyes. Something wasn’t right. We pulled on our sweatshirts,

How many of us have a notebook or at least one Post-It(s) somewhere in our office with a password written down for online access to something?  According to a new study (2021), BetaNews.com reports that 57 percent of American employees are currently writing down work-related passwords on sticky notes. Teachers and students, like those of us at our own jobs, must manage many accounts to access various online tools and resources.  COVID resulted in the

Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. We were biking a towering cliff, a 300-foot drop to rocky shores and cold waters. Low railing on our right was all that separated us from a downward tumble. On our left, cars zipped along a single lane, semi-trucks

311 days. Never would I have guessed on March 16th, 2020 that our then ninth grader would go 311 days without being in the same physical space as her peers and her beloved teachers.  While she values the college and career preparedness high school offers, prior to the pandemic, her main motivator for attending school was friendship. It was her chance to talk about boys and TikTok and make weekend plans.   When we began navigating