Personalized Education

Is the key to improving our education system providing more personalized education to our children? Perhaps? Definitely? Or somewhere in between? Personalized education is almost always a good thing – each child gets the level of instruction they need for their level of learning. This type of personalization is usually seen in the Special Education…

Celebrating the Small Things

You don’t see this every day? How often does your 8th grader come home and say he was the first one to hug his teacher on her first day back to school? Jasper and a friend came home from school today and were so excited that their teacher was back in the classroom (after having taken…

Oski Bear’s 70th Birthday

Today is Oski’s birthday. He was born on September 27, 1941, making him 70 today. Oski made his costumed debut in a size 54 sweater, with blue trousers, white gloves, and size 13 ½ football shoes at the Cal – St. Mary’s game. This debut ended the use of live bears at Cal football games.…

Summer Project Reality

I started to make my own list of things to do this summer but it ended up with things on it like – do our taxes, file paperwork, reorganize my closet and after about 7 or 8 of things like this, I went, ouch, stop – I don’t want to do all of these yucky…