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Small towns: Bagnoregio – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Luckily, around Viterbo there are dozens of small, medieval, (usually) hilltop towns. Some we visited only incidentally. After a sumptuous dinner just outside the town, our dinner group decided to aid our digestion with a walk through the city center of Vitorchiano. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window).
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Pisa, Lucca, Florence (December) – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Pisa, Lucca, Florence (December). Pisa, Lucca, Florence (December). During the holiday break in December, we traveled as a family to northern Tuscany: to Pisa, Lucca, and Florence. The changes in food and architecture stick out in my mind, even four months later (now). I hadn’t realized just how imprinted Lazio had become on my psyche. Pisa and Lucca rivaled Florence for a while politically back in the early Renaissance, and they have their own unique architectural...
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teaching – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. The unexamined life in schools. The unexamined life in schools. For those interested in elementary and secondary education, I highly recommend following KQED’s MindShift. The contributions tend to be thoughtful, provocative, and based in good research (though not always with citations). I often can’t keep up with reading all of them, but the title of a recent post drew me in: How can schools prioritize for the best ways kids learn? Schools and classes that prioriti...
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Photography – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Our itinerary more or less circumnavigated the island and introduced our students to several phases of Sicilian history: Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab, Norman, Spanish, and others. The layers of art, history, food, language, religion, and architecture are bewildering and bewitching. On our itinerary: Catania, Taormina, Ragusa, Modica, Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Segesta, Palermo, Monreale, Bagheria, and Cefalù. Sicily Trip Itinerary (SYA 2014). We had gotten pas...
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pedagogy – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. My Confession about Dead Poets Society. My Confession about Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams’ death stunned me. I admit I haven’t watched too many of his movies in recent years, especially the ones too dependent on his standup schtick, but some of his work is firmly imprinted on my psyche:. Figures prominently in these reminiscences, in which I often see Keating’s lines from the movie offered as if inspiration from Williams himself:. Parents, bad parents; engaged...
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SYA – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Our itinerary more or less circumnavigated the island and introduced our students to several phases of Sicilian history: Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab, Norman, Spanish, and others. The layers of art, history, food, language, religion, and architecture are bewildering and bewitching. On our itinerary: Catania, Taormina, Ragusa, Modica, Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Segesta, Palermo, Monreale, Bagheria, and Cefalù. Sicily Trip Itinerary (SYA 2014). As has been the c...
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Better late than never: Christmas in Viterbo – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Better late than never: Christmas in Viterbo. Better late than never: Christmas in Viterbo. As has been the case all year, much of our time here has been too full and rich to keep up with running commentary on this blog. However, our school year is over, the students have just flown home, and my grades and comments are complete, so I can now turn to the staggering backlog of photos. Covering a distance of almost two kilometers. It was a fabulous holiday. Pisa, Lucc...
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Sicily – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Our itinerary more or less circumnavigated the island and introduced our students to several phases of Sicilian history: Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab, Norman, Spanish, and others. The layers of art, history, food, language, religion, and architecture are bewildering and bewitching. On our itinerary: Catania, Taormina, Ragusa, Modica, Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Segesta, Palermo, Monreale, Bagheria, and Cefalù. Sicily Trip Itinerary (SYA 2014). About 1 week ago.
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education – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. The unexamined life in schools. The unexamined life in schools. For those interested in elementary and secondary education, I highly recommend following KQED’s MindShift. The contributions tend to be thoughtful, provocative, and based in good research (though not always with citations). I often can’t keep up with reading all of them, but the title of a recent post drew me in: How can schools prioritize for the best ways kids learn? Schools and classes that prioriti...
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Italy – VARIE VIAE
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Different roads lead–in their way–home. Our itinerary more or less circumnavigated the island and introduced our students to several phases of Sicilian history: Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab, Norman, Spanish, and others. The layers of art, history, food, language, religion, and architecture are bewildering and bewitching. On our itinerary: Catania, Taormina, Ragusa, Modica, Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Segesta, Palermo, Monreale, Bagheria, and Cefalù. Sicily Trip Itinerary (SYA 2014). As has been the c...
