reminding you that, while we didn't cover "how do i work through a coup" in the faculty development workshop (FWIW my answer is "don't", seek breath and togetherness instead), we DO have the gift of trauma-informed pedagogy. here are a few links for the coming days/weeks/months:

reading or listening to Mays Imad's work (@lrningsanctuary) always helps me so much and is a great place to start. this interview with @Bali_Maha is medicine.

"Trauma-informed Pedagogy and How is Your Heart?": https://t.co/dPAqeV9B3w
https://t.co/oaEvSLYE6b

"Hope can be a passive gesture: “let’s hope it all turns out OK.” But hope can also be active, as a resistive act of defiance, self-empowerment & enduring resilience even in the face of uncertainty."
here's a slightly different framing from @bethmcmurtrie , one that I think has the very, very useful addition of "don't take things personally". we're all whole humans. what your students are doing (or not doing) right now is often very little about you. https://t.co/TQrY6tAxKH
if a video (or just its audio) is more your speed today, here's a fantastic UC Berkeley program that critically centers racial trauma, and how we can teach in the context of racial violence (of which our classrooms are a part):

https://t.co/dsDsBteIaS
and here's @karenraycosta (another key follow!) on the #TeaforTeaching podcast interviewed by @john_kane_osw and Rebecca Mushtare about trauma-informed teaching. listen while you make lunch or while you go for a walk this afternoon:

https://t.co/Sllyc5meRf
the @WabashTeaches podcast is a balm for the teaching and learning soul. today i needed Nancy Lynne Westfield talking with Amy Oden about breath and breathing in the classroom.

https://t.co/NeaDRH1aKo
"The physical act of breathing makes a big difference in our ability to think...so where do we have room to breathe? Where do we create that? Not just expect people to do that on their own time, but actually see it as a value,"

Breathe with your students. It is so powerful.
White people, we also *need* this episode on white rage with Melanie Harris & @drjenharvey. American politics is white rage. Yesterday was a death cry emanating from the very heart of this country. How do we teach given that?

Make time to listen:

https://t.co/aMs0tKWCNF
No matter what, I encourage you to be human w/ your students & allow them the same dignity in return. Help them breathe. Stretch together. It takes 5 min & is more important than your content. Tell them this is hard but that you have hope, and then cultivate that hope with them.

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OK I am going to be tackling this as surveillance/open source intel gathering exercise, because that is my background. I blew away 3 years of my life doing site acquisition/reconnaissance for a certain industry that shall remain unnamed and believe there is significant carryover.


This is NOT going to be zillow "here is how to google school districts and find walmart" we are not concerned with this malarkey, we are homeschooling and planting victory gardens and having gigantic happy families.

With that said, for my frog and frog-adjacent bros and sisters:

CHOICE SITES:

Zillow is obvious one, but there are many good sites like Billy Land, Classic Country Land, Landwatch, etc. and many of these specialize in owner financing (more on that later.) Do NOT treat these as authoritative sources - trust plat maps and parcel viewers.

TARGET IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION:

Okay, everyone knows how to google "raw land in x state" but there are other resources out there, including state Departments of Natural Resources, foreclosure auctions, etc. Finding the land you like is the easy part. Let's do a case study.

I'm going to target using an "off-grid but not" algorithm. This is a good piece in my book - middle of nowhere but still trekkable to civilization.

Note: visible power, power/fiber pedestal, utility corridor, nearby commercial enterprise(s), and utility pole shadows visible.

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