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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: A routine on a Sunday?This is an every week installment that features some individual who lives in the five boroughs, but usually, Manhattan, describing their routine on a Sunday. This section has spotlighted New Yorkers from every walk of life
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Friday un-Focused #7You learn quickly when you’re an educator that kids think you’re old. I was 23 when I first started teaching, I thought I was pretty young, cool even. To my students, I may as well have been Methuselah.
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Writing. Who are your buddies?I never realized how much the mere presence of other people in my life pushed me to accomplish more and meet the expectations the world has for me. It’s not like people passed me on the street and said, “Hey you, get back to work!” It’s just that you felt…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Writing. “There’s always things.”I once complained to my wife that I feared I might not have anything about which to write, she replied, “There’s things Don, there’s always things.” One of the best pieces of advice I ever received about writing.
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Writing. What works for me.Avoid letting other tasks infringe upon them. If you’ve got kids, and writing takes place best when they are napping, do that. It’s unfortunate that the same machine that I use to write is also capable of delivering Twitter, Facebook, and Voxer.
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Why write?If I have to give myself a grade for my performance during the quarantine, and why not, everyone seems to be grading themselves during this time, I’d score myself a fairly generous “C+”. But one thing I have managed to do is publish a blog post every day during the…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19: Friday un-Focused #6We all have shining moments in our day. I love the notifications I get from Waze telling me how long it will take me to get to my next meeting if I leave the house now. “Scheduling meeting with Chad – Light Traffic – Leave now to be there in…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Is it a snow day? “I don’t know”Even before social media, a rumor like this would travel around my school in about eight minutes. You’d hear a collective cheer raised by the entire student body. But this doesn’t happen because I possess years of experience with “Snow Day Stone Face.” I really should play more poker, but…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: What you don’t know
When you are a school leader or any kind of leader, you must recognize that there are times when the only appropriate answer to a question is, “I don’t know.” At times of crisis such as we are experiencing now, this is ever more critical. Folks are willing to give…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: I don’t know?Here the thing young readers, this question is a trap! When you offer a theory or admit that you saw the “kitchen shears” (in my house, ______, is usually scissors) on the dining room table earlier in the day, it is now your fault that they’re missing. If you offer…
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In the middle of learning - by Donald F. Gately 