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Our Back2School Story

At some point you look through the case-history and decide to accept labels.  Red flags were there the times one appeared “clumsy” and when the other stopped talking.  Red flags were thrown in your face when you were the director

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Summer isn’t over

Recent survey shows that about ¼ of the families out there haven’t taken a “vacation” this summer.  But there is still time…summer isn’t over yet! You don’t need much time, or money, or even travel plans.  You can enjoy a

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Summer School

When working with students to avoid the “summer slide,” I try and make “summer school” feel more like “summer camp.” Through fun themes such as “Phineas and Ferb” we work on reading, writing, math, science, social studies … We work

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it’s a SPRING thing

Although our “Swing into Spring” event started with flurries – It was the last of our winter weather (which is good since it’s almost summer)!  No more hats or mittens – but I wouldn’t put away your kids boots –

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FUNctional FAMilies

After committing to resolutions discussed in the past few articles many families are reporting their homes are happier and healthier! We love hearing about such success stories so feel free to share yours below.  Share your ideas to becoming a

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Proactive and Preventative Parenting

We’ve been dissecting each of the Mi-Resolutions 1by1.  Have you been reading them? Taking the challenges? We are a fourth of the way through 2014 – are you reaching your goals? Our first resolution was to “Tell yourself that you

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healthy=happy

As we live and learn we discover what lessons are the most important …and for each person it’s a different answer.  For some it’s book knowledge, for others it’s life skills, for some it’s dealing with complex situations, for others

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learning to be a healthier me

Mi School’s focus is to encourage a love for learning.  During Valentines I rambled about falling in love with knowledge ~ and to do that you should start with learning about yourself. If becoming a smarter and stronger you is

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In love … with LEARNING

Last time I rambled about Mi Scheduling so following the resolution order lets dive into Mi Education! “We” is used in the past blogs since “we” are all about team-work, but today I write from the point of “I”.  This

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Mi Schedule and Goals

Maybe the last article could’ve been shorter and posted in sections… but it must have been the right decision to post at once, because posting the 5 resolutions as a “packaged deal” led to some great feed- back and discussions. 

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