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MCPS Updates Phased Plan for School Reopening
MCPS Updates Phased Plan for School Reopening

MCPS releases links to phased reopening plans, remote learning hybrid model and more. 

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Amid Covid Concerns, Montana Parents Make Tough Calls
Amid Covid Concerns, Montana Parents Make Tough Calls

The uncertainty of the 2020-2021 school year is making some parents feel like they need to shop for a crystal ball when they do their back-to-school shopping. Others have already, opted for homeschool or some other non-traditional learning environment instead.

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Grade Schooler, Health & Wellness, Parents, Safety, ClassesTiffany Williamscovid, covid-19, MCPS, missoula public schools, school, education, social distancing, distance learning, return to school, summer break, school year, school break, fall, coronavirus, hamilton, hamilton montana, montana
Boundaries Are How I'm Surviving Homeschool
Boundaries Are How I'm Surviving Homeschool

Teachers have risen to the challenge of COVID-19 in a very real way, and yet I find myself envious of the natural barriers between them and their students in a school setting. I don’t have that.

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The Front Steps Project
The Front Steps Project

We are documenting this time by taking five-minute “Front Steps Portraits” of Missoula residents. Our in-house photographer Tiffany Williams with Tiffany Photography will spend Thursday, March 26 scurrying around town to snap super fast images of Missoula families on their front steps. Our goal is to document this interesting time and bring us together virtually since we can’t be together face to face.

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Family Fun, Grade Schooler, In & Around Town, Lifestyle, Parents, Teens, TweensTiffany WilliamsMissoula, Missoula families, Missoula family, coronavirus, coronavirus Missoula, covid-19, photography, #frontstepsproject, #thefrontstepsproject, things to do with kids, fun things to do, fun things to do in Missoula, family photo, family photography
Supporting Your Child during this Public Health Crisis
Supporting Your Child during this Public Health Crisis

As the coronavirus/COVID-19 public health crisis hits us here in Montana, there is a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety. School has been closed, our routines have been upended, and we may be constantly checking the news so we get as much information as possible. Here’s some suggestions to support your children during this public health crisis.

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Raising Culturally Competent Children
Raising Culturally Competent Children

As Montana parents raising children in fairly monochromatic communities, we must intentionally value diversity. How can White parents equip children to interact in a culturally competent manner?

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Lifestyle, Parents, Teens, Tots & Tykes, Tweens, Grade Schooler406 Families: Guest Contributorracial bias, culturally competent kids, cultural diversity, competent kids, maturity, maturing, MLK, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Martin Luther King Day, Missoula family, Missoula Families, Missoula, Missoula kids, PerspectiveComment