It’s annual testing time again at school and letters are coming home about the importance of good sleep and good food for optimal test performance. In our region, the test of choice is the SBAC, which stands for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. After getting their (largely uninformative) family score reports by mail last year, I did a little digging to see…
My friends and family know that I’ve been devoting a fair amount of time to fantasy baseball lately. I started back in February of this year trying to get my ‘system’ in place for Opening Day in April. While I don’t intend to share everything I’ve tested and learned, the blog is a good place to chime in on some…
I know that my kids are quirky (one of the things I love most about them). I also know that they have tons of downtime at school because the standard curriculum is taught at a pace that is a mismatch for them. So they are constantly coming up with clever ways to pass the time at school. Mostly the answer…
I hate thinning seedlings. I feel sorry for each seedling I pull out. They did exactly what they were supposed to do and sprouted. Their destiny is determined by whether they looked good in those early days after sprouting and whether they came up too close to stronger specimen. Who am I to say that the seeds that get off…
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Hi, I’m Andrea, a multi-potentialite with primary interests in education, science, entrepreneurship and big data analytics. Learn more about my eclectic experiences running my own SEO agency, teaching college Organic Chemistry, creating resume screening algorithms, working as a lifeguard at one of California’s busiest beaches and much, much more by clicking here.
