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Here’s a roundup of the columns in my 2020 Washington Post series for parents learning to home-school on the fly during the COVID-19 school closures.

I hope they won’t become relevant again in the way they were when I wrote them–but they’re probably still available to read.

Note to readers: The post and email series below were created in March, 2020. This was a few weeks into the sudden school shutdowns created by the Coronavirus pandemic. A little over two years later, I took another look to see I could revise the series, and make it relevant to parents under less extreme circumstances. My conclusion? 

Note to readers: The post below was created in March, 2020. This was a few weeks into the sudden school shutdowns created by the Coronavirus pandemic. A little over two years later, I took another look to see I could revise it and make it relevant to parents under less extreme circumstances. My conclusion? 

One of the habits I developed while writing and revising Adequate Yearly Progress was listening to specific sections of a few favorite audiobooks before sitting down to write. With a professional narrator’s voice in my head, unnecessary words or unclear phrasing became obvious. I could hear the poetic potential in lines that once seemed straightforward. Often, I’d choose what passages to listen to based on the tone and pacing of whatever part of my own book I was working on that day – kind of an audio-chapter playlist.