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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 8 hours ago
5 Minute Freewrite: bad sign
Find the prompt: Bad sign. That's a bad sign. I use that phrase sometimes. Ooh, that's a bad sign. I'm trying to think of any specific moment when I've actually used that…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 2 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: lack of circulation
Find the prompt here: Lack of circulation Not a desireable state of being. How do you spell desirable? Like that. Circulation is pretty cool. There's a little experiment in…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 2 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: brand new canvas
Find the prompt here: Brand new canvas. If I were a painter, I imagine a brand new canvas would feel like an exciting opportunity. Or maybe it would feel oppressive, like a…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 3 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: save me
Find the prompt here: save me. save me. save me. saveme Saveme, it's French for save me save me save me save me from myself, amirite save me save me save me…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 5 days ago
Five Minute Freewrite: a big boat
Find the prompt here: A big boat. We're gonna need a big boat, said. No, I don't want to do it that way. No dialogue. A big boat. There are some very big cruise boats. No. I…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 5 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: few or many
Find the prompt here: Few or many. Few or many? "Few or many?" the butcher asked Gillian. She looked at him. What a strange way to ask how much chicken she wanted. Did he…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 6 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: agency of aliens
Find the prompt here: Agency of aliens. I started typing angency. That makes me think of angels. Angelcy. Agency--action. Movement. Aliens. Something foreign to one. Aliens…
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stinawog (65)in #freewrite • 12 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: carbon lifeform
Find the prompt here: Carbon lifeform. I confess, I don't know much about carbon. I know we are carbon lifeforms (right?). I say stuff that I think is true, but when I don't…
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stinawog (65)in Freewriters • 18 days ago
5 Minute Freewrite: end of the hostility
Find the prompt here: Dear diary, I decided to start my post like that because I've been thinking I wanted to make these posts more like journal entries because I haven't…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 12 (Closing)
(I wrote this. Read the whole article at For now, Brendan and I are trying to get our kiddo's school to implement Dr. Ross Greene's "Collaborative and Proactive Solutions"…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 11
I just love that trailer. I should watch the documentary, I bet I'd love it too. I think meaning is what we make of our lives. "We engage each other in doing something," Haraway…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 10
To me, this comes back to Plato and the idea that we should all be aspiring toward some perfect Form—the idea that we must constantly be trying to be something more that what we…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 9
I don't mean to disparage Lochlan's school or his teachers. I do believe they are doing their best with the resources they have and within the educational model that has been…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing systems 8
What we learned most recently regarding bathroom usage is that if anyone in Lochlan's class needs to use the bathroom outside the prescribed times, the student that needs to go…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failed Systems 7
The growing maturity that comes with age and his familiarity with the school meant that Lochlan got off to a good start in first grade. We shared his diagnoses early with his…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 6
Lochlan's outburst behaviors got worse leading up to the winter break. At one point he received a three day "in-school suspension," which meant he wasn't allowed back in his…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing systems 5
This educational model is what Alfie Kohn refers to as traditional education, or "Old School." He says, "Proponents of traditional education often complain that the model they…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 4
Another early hint was when the school held a literacy event after school one afternoon. Parents and kids went to the kid's classrooms and the teachers explained how they were…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing Systems 3
So, we had checked the school district calendar prior to planning the trip, but at some point after that, LAUSD moved the first day of school to an earlier date. There was no way…
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stinawog (65)in #blog • 2 months ago
Failing systems 2
Let's go back a little further, to when Lochlan was starting kindergarten in 2023. We were a little discombobulated because we'd just moved from East Hollywood to South LA that…
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