Every base has one. A School Liaison Officer.
Military Interstate Children's Compact: What's the Big Deal?
As you move around the country, and world, with your MilKids, it can seem daunting and confusing to keep switching your child’s schools. Not every school, even Department of Defense schools on military bases, understands how to work with military kids. Luckily, there is the Military Interstate Children’s Compact.
PCS Timeline for MilKids
So you got your orders, and you have a kiddo or two in school. What’s next? Let me help you out with an easy to use PCS Timeline for MilKids!
The History of Women's History Month and PCSing with Kids
Women. We make up just a little bit less than 50% of the total global population. We have been around just as long as men. As a gender, we have scientists, rulers, authors, artists, composers, doctors, teachers, and pretty much every career path ever. For much of our species existence, women have been on the back […]
6 Things to Consider About Schools When You Move
We are military families. We move. A lot. And everything is fine, kind of, when it’s just you and your spouse and maybe a dog/cat/goldfish. But now you have kids, and they go to school. So your military moves have taken on a WHOLE new dimension: which district has the BEST schools.
MilKids Round-Up: Getting Ready for 2016
This calendar year is just about over. For teachers, this means just a few more days to relax (read: stress) before the second half of the school year starts. For parents, you have a few more days to entertain your children before you send them back to school.
A Teacher's Christmas Wish List
This is what THIS teacher wants for Christmas. What’s on your list?
Teaching through Deployment
It’s no joke: deployments suck. Suddenly a two parent house is a one parent show, the kids miss their deployed mom or dad, and learning can suffer. But you can use a deployment to help your children learn new skills and build global knowledge.
Why Military Families are Awesome at Flat Stanley
Mailing Flat Stanley around the world creates cool connections to other classes and children. But military families still rock at it the most!
How to Prepare your Child's School for a Deployment
We are military families, and deployments or extended separations are something that we deal with as part of our lives.
Happy World Teachers' Day!!!
Tomorrow is a holiday, but you won’t ever hear about it or know about it. The people you are celebrating are the one’s who teach your children each and every day. October 5 is World Teachers’ Day!
We need to talk about guns, America
The thing I am most tired of is the live shooter drill training. Every year that I have been a teacher, I have needed to gather my students into the most concealed corner of the classroom. I have had to choke down my own dread and my own tears of fear in order to comfort my students, my children, little boys and girls who should NOT have to think about safety at school in this way.
Bullying Lasts Beyond Childhood
I can guarantee that there is a little girl or little boy out there tonight in tears because her best friends just dumped her, because his lunch money was stolen again, because it seems like the whole world is against them.
Bullies
Bullies today are not as obvious or open about their methods. There are rarely bruises to point to to indicate that a bullying event has occurred.
Bullies today, especially female bullies, are sneaky and conniving.
Beware Dr. Facebook
Unless you have something productive to say AND/OR have credentials in the field, stay out.
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