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Dear WinkWorld Readers,

As you know, I have written other blog posts about prairie pedagogy–and, particularly about a little one/two room school, Atall School on the isolated northern prairies of South Dakota.

COVID is hard for all of us.  Like families everywhere, the Atall families this spring have been homeschooling. Missy Urbaniak, the teacher, has been ZOOMing with the kids/families to keep the learning alive.  It has been challenging on many levels for all. Recently,  I was feeling discouraged, and a message came from Missy, telling me that, even in this chaotic spring schedule, the students had completed their final student newsletter, Prairie School Post (PSP) of the academic year.  The students’ writing inspired me and brought a little tear of joy.  The writing of these students fills me with hope. When you click on the link below, the student newspaper will open.

Prairie School Post 17 SPRING 2020

Posted below is a previous blog post (1/17/2020),  where more Prairie School Posts are mentioned.

Prairie School Post (PSP): A Student Newsletter

Below here are some recent photos of the Aall students.

Here the students are celebrating 100 days of school (Feb.27, 2020), and they dressed as if they were 100 years old.  

And, in the photo below, the students did get to go skiing before school closed for COVID.

Just had to post the most recent PSP–now back to the queue: SUNY, Oswego and “spin doctors.”