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WHAT WORKED Big prep each night. I’m trying to get out of the house by 7am, which means I need to get pretty much everything done the night before. I have...

We made it to the end of the week. It felt like two weeks, maybe even three. I’m bone tired, and it’s only just begun. As I expected, it’s bet...

The kids started on Monday. I start today. This has almost always been the case (that they start two days before me) and I appreciate those extra days to get us...

Today we finally jump off the cliff we’ve been been standing at the edge of for so long. Today we take the plunge. I’ve been standing on this cliff ...

Tomorrow my kids will start their new school years at their new schools. They are both nervous. So, so nervous. But they are excited too. After over a year of d...

Last night I had a dream. A work dream. An anxious work dream. Usually my anxious work dreams involve me lost on a large, unfamiliar campus, unable to find my w...

Today is officially my last day of summer. Tomorrow I am contractually obligated to be on campus, attending a full day of meetings. To mark this day, which I ca...

More random, incoherent thoughts because that’s all I got: I really appreciated OMDG’s post yesterday about Emily Oster’s newsletter. She is m...

Things that have happened in the past few days: SFUSD sent out a “Welcome to the New School Year” mailer with information about masking (indoor requ...

I’m still trying to figure out our new normal. It feels like all the adults have left the room, and they’re just throwing us bits and pieces of info...