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As my children have gotten older, the physical distance between us has grown as they have grown and matured. Children start off in your arms, then to play on the floor at your feet, then across the room on shaky legs, then running across the yard, soon down the street on their bike, away for the weekend at a friend’s house, across city on the train for a part-time job, absent for some weeks in another state at camp or on mission, living away for a season at college…and then finally gone off on their own to live the lives we’ve helped them launch upon.

I’ve always heard references to a mother’s heartstrings which supposedly tie our hearts to the hearts of our children. The way I have begun to feel about this is perhaps less poetic. I don’t think it’s a heartstring, but rather a heartelastic. Imagine those really stiff elastics (or rubber bands) that don’t have much give and are hard to stretch out.  We start off l

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Over the last 5 years, I have had the honor and pleasure of working for both the virtual academy world and K¹² Inc. During this time, I have learned a great deal about working from home, and how to maximize my time and energy to give back to the company as best as possible, without working a 20-hour a day schedule. In doing so, I have had many people, friends and family alike, inquire as to “How do you work from home?!?”.

I would like to share, and demystify, some of these myths to bring to light the real picture of working from home. At least, for this lone wolf stationed in Castle Rock, Colorado. It’s not an image of an employee sitting at their computer, in their robe, with a bagel burning the toaster and the printing reeling non-stop, instead, it is an organized collage of projects, work, and interaction. (ok…wit

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A week ago I pummeled a major report by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, “Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century.” I headlined that column “Smart people + big report = dreamy nonsense.” I said that in calling for new pathways to give students who don’t want to attend college a good high school education, the report ignored the realities of limits on employers’ capacity to offer internships and school districts’ willingness to totally remake their vocational classes.

The report’s authors, being visionaries, were accustomed to being accused of impracticality, and they took my criticism in stride. They even agreed to let me pick at their reasoning in a conversation on this blog. I exchanged e-mails with Pathways to Prosperity project leaders Robert B. Schwartz, academic dean, and Ronald Ferguson, senior lecturer, both at the education school. The third author of the report was former Business Week journalist Bill Symonds.

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STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn coach Jim Calhoun will skip the No. 14 Huskies’ game vs. Marquette on Thursday night in Hartford, and also missed practice on Wednesday afternoon.

But it had nothing to do with the sanctions levied against the coach and his program one day earlier by the NCAA Committee on Infractions. Rather, Calhoun will attend a memorial service in Nashua, N.H., for his sister-in-law, Eileen McDevitt Fucile, who died on Monday.

Associate George Blaney will coach UConn (20-6, 8-6 Big East) vs. the Golden Eagles (16-11, 7-7).

Meanwhile, with the conference season winding down and a postseason bid to prepare for, the Huskies tried to focus on basketball as talk of the NCAA decisions hovered over them.

“Yeah, we saw all that stuff, but there wasn’t really any type of mood on the team about it,” junior Kemba Walker said. “It’s great that they didn’t take postseason play away from us, but other than that. …

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For those of you who have read my previous blog entries, I have mentioned how lucky I am that every day I get to meet and work with interesting and inspiring people as the K¹² Online Community Manager. But because the reasons why families choose online education are as varied as you could imagine, it’s nearly impossible for me to truly explain just how amazing these people are and what makes them so passionate about online learning.

So, in an effort to convey how diverse and inspiring the K¹² family is, I created ‘Meet the K¹² Community’ – a regular blog series that will feature students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Without further adieu, here’s our first introduction…

Since it’s Washington’s Birthday aka President’s Day, let’s meet Amelia Jackson-Zaremba, a K¹² Sr Instructional Designer in History, and find out what made her pursue a career that combines history, education and technology.

What is your background?

I’m a native of Virginia and attended school in Virginia. I earned a B.A. Degree in His

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