Category Archives: Susan’s Blog

Combining blogs

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Susan

I’ve decided to combine this blog with my professional blog at susanwisebauer.com: http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog. New posts will be up there only. Thanks for visiting, and please come on over!

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Taking a creativity break.

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Susan

Gentle Readers, if there is ever going to be a finished History of the Renaissance World, I need to concentrate on history and nothing else…at least long enough to get a feel for the sweep of the whole thing. Thirty … Continue reading →

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Life on the border (a cross-post from my personal blog)

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Susan

Whew. Just finished two days of conferencing in which I talked non-stop about books, teaching writing, history, grammar, literature, my publishing company…and a thousand other things book- and learning-related. I then slept for fourteen hours and just now woke up. … Continue reading →

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Blog on hiatus…

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Susan

I’ve been working hard on a new curriculum plus the next volume of the History of the World, and for the next couple of months I’m going to put all my creative energies into those projects. I’ll be back to … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Susan

Hope you’re all taking an educational break. We are too; blog posts will resume after Christmas.

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Does “go play” = “go away”?

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Susan

I recently ran across this article in the New York Times: “The Parent Problem in Young Adult Lit” (by Julie Just). It made me think, and I’m wondering what your reactions might be. Here’s an excerpt…. Judging from The New … Continue reading →

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An invitation…

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Susan

I’d love to host some guest posts on this blog. I can pontificate away endlessly about education, but (as we discussed here) there are a lot of you out there with experience and expertise in different areas, and it would … Continue reading →

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The gap year, Part IV: resources for gap year projects

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Susan

Here are a few of the useful resources we discovered while researching gap year options. If you know of others–or have an opinion about any of these–please post! BOOKS The Gap-Year Advantage: Helping Your Child Benefit from Time Off Before … Continue reading →

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Using online courses: an initial attempt at a checklist.

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Susan

As my promised follow-up to yesterday’s post, I offer an initial attempt at a checklist that you should use to evaluate online courses before you sign your student up. 1. Find out how much grading the teacher will do, and … Continue reading →

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Using online courses: why you need a checklist.

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Susan

Today’s post isn’t completely unrelated to our previous discussions about ways of providing expert instruction. Before the New Year, I had an exchange of emails and a lengthy phone conversation with a long-time home schooling friend with teenagers. She has … Continue reading →

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