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9:00am, Lolita. Taking a break while our contractor Max fills up the pool. It seems like a new routine. We do Track followed by the Perimeter Walk. The Walk acts as a cooling down activity but there is so much to see. We will have the pool starting tomorrow to wash us down. No more…
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8:00am, Lolita. In Oliver. Raining and windy, we had to cancel Track. Sorry, kids. Lori’s parents have to be at work early so she is napping here until school opens. Yesterday could be considered The Day of the Ginkgo. First of all, I apologized to the kids for giving them the wrong spelling of the word. It’s…
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I’m not really supposed to post as per my uni mentor until I catch up on Longhouseschool.blog. But today was exceptional and I am happy not to skip it. Our Track run is now 6:30am and we have a full house. The students take running very seriously and this includes warm-ups and cool downs. First…
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It’s Sunday morning. Lori and I had decided to sleep in this morning. So we left for the track at 8:00 a.m. This is big: she ran her first mile without stopping to walk! She had forgotten to count her laps and if I didn’t stop her, she probably would still be running. Who, exactly,…
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(From r/LoHeidiLita) I am including this post because Junior’s comments about his school resonate with our Longhouse Project. Junior is a tenth grader who has an academic scholarship to attend a very distinguished private school. FYI, Junior, along with many of the key people at Longhouse Elem are members of the Nichiren Buddhist group, “Soka…
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In the interest of post a lot of previously written articles, drawn primarily from two Reddit sources (r/LoHeidiLita and r/SGIWhistleblowersMITA), I am going to post in reverse chronological order. When available, I will also post the date written or an estimate. I don’t know whether it’s possible on WordPress, but at one point I will…
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by Lolita My college mentor has my running permission to read and comment on my posts at the Longhouseschool.blog. I also email her additional short essays that explain our work more fully. In turn, she has given me permission to quote her emails to me as well as to paraphrase the one-on-one conversations we have.…
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From Heidi The highlight for my day yesterday was talking to Lolita (AKA “My Love”) last night about her teaching, her students, and Longhouse Elem. Early in the morning she started sending me WhatsApp videos showing 24—kids (!!!), yes, the entire school, running around the track and finally swimming. “Did you notice this? Did you…
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Written by Heidi on Reddit. This is a simplified version of a post that I put up last week. From Heidi The highlight of my day yesterday was talking to Lolita about her teaching, the kids, and Longhouse Elem. Earlier in the morning she sent me WhatsApp videos showing 24 1st and 2nd graders, yes,…
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