COVID-19 Archives - Katie Egan Cunningham

The Professor & The Principal, Episode 4: Navigating Strong Emotions

We are navigating strong emotions in our house as we experience Week Four of learning from home with our two boys, ages 8 and 11. We have our good days–mostly sunny days and Fridays–and we have all had moments of intense frustration. Thursdays are especially hard as we all reach fatigue and emotions run high. In this episode of The Professor and The Principal, my husband, Chris, and I talk about how we supporting our boys as the navigate strong emotions and how we are attempting, imperfectly, to use what we know about social and emotional learning to stay the course.

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April 9, 2020April 25, 2020

Katie Egan Cunningham

The Professor & The Principal Podcast, Episode 3: What’s Worth Learning, Part II

We are on week three of homeschooling since the COVID-19 crisis hit our community and every day is starting to feel remarkably the same while also feeling immeasurably different. I’ve started a list titled “It’s Worth Learning” that I keep in the kitchen to help remind me what’s most important right now. So far the list includes things like:

how to tell a good knock-knock joke
to wait for others at the dinner table table before eating
how to do a Google search that gets you the answer you want
that taking a bath with a good book and some Epsom salts can make a lot of things better
that a better response to “I’m sorry” is just “Thank you”

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March 31, 2020May 2, 2020

Katie Egan Cunningham

The Professor & THe Principal Podcast, Episode 2: What’s Worth Learning

In our second episode of The Professor and The Principal podcast, my husband, Chris, and I explore the question–What’s worth learning? We talk about this particular moment of the COVID-19 crisis and how it’s bringing this question into sharper focus for us as educators and parents.

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