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“Just flat-out interesting. The story localizes and explains a very hot trend in education. It doesn’t function as a booster piece, just illustrates the pros and cons of the classroom through quotes and reporting."

--From the Parenting Media Association on "The Flipped Classroom," which earned a Bronze Medal

Education

  • How the Parents Rights Initiative Taught My Students About Civics

  • World History is About More than Europe

  • The Best Ways Busy Parents Can Support Local Schools

  • Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month: Must-Read Books for Kids

  • Don’t Opt Out of Testing

  • Could Running Be the Key to Empowering Kids?

  • Sign Here: The Effectiveness of Kid’s Contracts

  • Do Deadlines Help or Hurt Students?

  • A Framework for Using Notable Social Studies Picture Books in High School (with Brianne Pitts and Darren Guido)

  • Should School Days Be Phone-Free?

  • New Books to Honor Autism Awareness Month

  • Teaching the Haitian Revolution (in Social Education, an NCSS publication)

Travel and Family Fun

  • Eurailing With Kids

  • Small Towns For an Idyllic Midwest Road Trip

  • Where to Play, Eat, and Stay in Wichita, Kansas

  • Disney Trips Are Still Worth It

  • Books Set in Washington

  • Have Baby, Will Travel

  • Destination: Funko HQ

  • Shopping Past Santa Fe

  • Native American Culture in the Four Corners

  • Sugar Land TX: Land of Sweet Treats

  • Rock Tour of the Four Corner

  • Slow Tripping the Southwest

  • The Navajo's Long Walk

  • Taking it Easy in Winslow Arizona 

  • Colors of the Four Corners

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Western Art and Architecture

  • Wanderings: Seattle, Washington

  • Wanderings: Wichita, Kansas

  • Wanderings: Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • Wanderings: Edmonds, Washington

  • In the Studio with Gail Folwell

  • Rendering: Crafted Modernism

  • Unexpected Beauty

  • In the Studio with Eldridge Hardie 

  • In the Studio with Randy Van Beek

  • A Home to Honor the Setting 

  • In the Studio with Catherine Eaton Skinner 

  • Backdrop for Life

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Stories for Children

  • Rocky Mountain Festivals

  • Viking Uses for Body Parts

  • Hitching a Ride: How Babies Travel

  • A Norwegian Nisse 

  • Area 51

Baseball

  • I’m a Mariners Superfan and Your Kids (and you) Should Be Too

  • Take Me Out to Funko Field

  • Hit and Run with the 51s

  • In Pursuit of the Big Show

…and more…

  • The Unexpected Benefits of Volunteering with PEPS\

  • Books Set in Washington

  • Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month

  • How a Year of Distance Learning May Create Lasting Change in Education

  • Livestream Podcast with Visions of Education

  • The Best Gifts and Toys in Seattle

  • The Return to In-Person School

  • How to Build a Strong Parent-Teacher Relationship

  • Will Seattle-Area Schools Reopen This Fall?

  • A Teacher’s Take on Distance Learning

  • What A Teacher Wishes You Would Do With Your Kids

  • Supporting Students During Ramadan

  • Why Homework Matters

  • The Motivation to Run and Write

  • Valentine’s Day through the Ages

…and more…

  • 5 Things to Do Before Starting the College Search 

  • Snow Make Up Days

  • What It's Like to Be a Teaching in Washington State

  • Will Seattle Public School Teachers Strike? 

  • Racial Disparity in Seattle's Highly Capable Cohort

  • Big Data Invades the Classroom

  • Think Outside the Classroom

  • Getting Social: Local Teachers Reinventing Social Studies

  • Standardized Testing: Should We Opt In or Opt Out

  • The Gift of Reading 

  • Are E-Books Hindering Literacy?

  • High School Start Times

  • Homework SOS

  • The Flipped Classroom

  • Memorializing High School

  • AP classes

  • Voting to Walkout

  • Getting a Running Start to College

  • 3-D Mapping

  • Beyond Open House: School Communication

  • Keeping Screen Time to a Minimum

  • Back to School Savings

  • A Vegan Thanksgiving

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