IntLivEd

Here to encourage and equip homeschool, private, and public educators so we can faithfully cultivate life-long learners.

[IntLivEd @intlived]

You are exactly where you need to be, at the time you needed to be here. At the start of your journey, toward the end, or anywhere in-between.

You have the capability to educate your own kids.
You have God-given intelligence, creativity, and strength to do so.

[IntLivEd @intlived]

@JeremyWingert79 Yes! It was truly a random treasure find from a library book sale. Those are sometimes the best finds 📚

[IntLivEd @intlived]

@JeremyWingert79 On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
By: Andrew Peterson
& series which is well written (can be intense for sensitive hearts)

The Wheel on the School
- An unexpected fav read aloud for my kids, has some old fashioned language, but a gem of a story with lovely characters

[IntLivEd @intlived]

@JoshPhillipsPhD Hmmm...

1. Wendell Berry
2. Flannary O'Connor
3. C.S. Lewis
4. G.K. Chesterton
5. Dostoevsky
6. Emily Dickinson
7. Shakespeare
8. Plutarch
9. Lilias Trotter
10. Katy Bowman

[IntLivEd @intlived]

What a thoughtful, articulate article.

I had the opportunity this school year to teach a student on my caseload how to play chess. It all started when he said, "I'd like to learn how to play chess but only smart people play it." And I responded, 'Who said that? I'll teach you.'

And so, I did, over time, and we enjoyed many a game together - a few moves a day.

It's a joy to reflect on the deeper work of learning he was accomplishing after reading this article. Thank you!

[Chris Taber @edulorechris]

New article on what chess has taught me about mathematics.

I explore the how automaticity can free working memory for expert thinking.

https://t.co/4YcAqbaHdP

[IntLivEd @intlived]

Most gently, a light rain is accomplishing watering my little garden this morning.

What a simple blessing.

[IntLivEd @intlived]

Recently read an old journal reflecting on the Rocky Mountains that the region has three seasons: Winter, Julyish, and September 🤣

[IntLivEd @intlived]

@iam_kristy40 @Architectolder Lovely. Almost 10 yrs ago, I learned that architecture was taught in the early 20th C as a fine art in most upper primary and secondary schools. I had noticed it in the Charlotte Mason rhythm of learning and wondered why, once I learned, it made so much sense.

[IntLivEd @intlived]

This weekend is for:
- outside deck staining/painting/repairing
- new day hike backpack selecting (I've been using a ski pack for this off-season duty, it's a little heavy)
- final garden seed planting
- con't DIY wedding decoration prepping

[IntLivEd @intlived]

@BowTiedEzer Lamb, sourced correctly, is amazing. If not, you could be eating mutton which isn't as good

[Leslie @Hopeleslie1234]

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.”
— Mary Oliver

[IntLivEd @intlived]

Summer is a season to learn for fun 🌞

Each season has a rhythm of learning, whether you are a teacher, a SAHM, a janitor, a deputy, an emergency responder, a store clerk, or whatever!

So
What are you going to learn about?

I'm starting with county/state history

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

Really good summary of the broad research into the cognitive benefits of writing by hand for students by @YoukiTerada at @edutopia.

Some highlights:

The slower, more deliberate pace of capturing ideas by hand, on paper, translates into a sharper recall of details—even days later.

Handwriting notetakers, however, are forced to slow down their minds and focus on broader principles and big ideas, rather than isolated facts, allowing them to connect new knowledge to existing knowledge they’ve already processed.

A deeper analysis revealed that handwriting notetakers were much more likely to add drawings, diagrams, and charts of the material being learned: a sketch of the water cycle, for example, or visual annotations linking concepts together.

https://t.co/UT7WCIHWBk

[IntLivEd @intlived]

@BasedRedWolf @DisbldUrbanFarm No wonder the caseload numbers are massive. I can't even imagine how I'd keep up with progress monitoring in that case...

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest."
~ John Buchan

Sunset, near Le Croisic (1890)
🎨 Ferdinand du Puigaudeau

[IntLivEd @intlived]

1) Sleep. Try not to get after them for sleeping late and delaying the start of your learning day if they need it.

2) And, let them 😭

One of my daughters would burst out sobbing. She'd become more distressed because she couldn't figure out 'why' - we gave her space and grace to simply cry.

Then she felt better!

[IntLivEd @intlived]

Each of your perspectives are gracious and realistic (sign me up for #1 - @DesbldUrbanFarm). I think some commenters @BasedRedWolf skimmed the detail of 'tiered' compensation though, have been burned by the broken system, or experienced a colleague who really, doesn't do much to TEACH kids.

In my realm as a SpEd teacher, my workload varies depending on the spectrum of disabilities, learning needs for each student. Some students need a little bit of encouragement with targeted interventions to reach grade level and some need much more.

I tip my hat though to SpEd teachers in Life Skills rooms - they have the biggest hearts, need more skilled and/or targeted training, and face possible (yet usually unintended) injury day in and day out. (And don't forget support staff!!)

[IntLivEd @intlived]

Consider this:

"All school work should be conducted in such a manner that children are aware of the responsibility of learning; it is their business to know that which has been taught. (Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, pg.74)

[IntLivEd @intlived]

This weekend is for:
- hanging plant hunting
- thank you marathon writing
- wedding cookie mass batch baking
- grad party hopping

[IntLivEd @intlived]

Tis the last school day of the last week of instruction before a few days of field trips, field days, and classroom clean up next week in school (with students).

The routine of instruction is not yet over folks!

[IntLivEd @intlived]

I feel this 👇🏼

[SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild]

For teachers like myself who love the work—and when I say “work,” I mean the behind the scenes work of teaching: the preparation, planning, organizing, sequencing content, refining explanations, anticipating misconceptions, identifying concrete examples to share, thinking through transitions, preparing checks for understanding, aligning instruction with the learning objective, and all of the other nitty-gritty details that go into a lesson before it is ever executed—there is a certain emptiness, a hollow feeling, at the start of summer break. You miss having that next lesson to plan and prepare.