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Teen Driver Safety Tips
For a parent, they are few things more frightening than handing over the keys to their teenage children for the first time. Especially knowing that the risk of crashing is the highest between 16-19-year-olds than any other age group. These teen driver safety tips can...
How Educators Can Deal With Difficult Parents
Our Education Blogger is a public school teacher with over a decade of experience. She’s an active NEA member and enjoys writing about her experiences in the classroom. Educators spend 4 years in college learning how to be effective teachers. However, they are...
The 6 Most At-Risk Fire Areas of Your Home
Wildland fires are becoming the new norm across much of the country, scorching more acreage with a ferocity that firefighters have not seen before. Now, more than ever, it’s important to understand fire behavior and the ways to prepare your home and community. Don’t...
Spooky and Sweet Halloween Classroom Treats
Everyone knows the best part of Halloween is the candy and no one knows better than our little trick-or-treaters. Make their day in the classroom a little more festive (and a lot more creepy) this Halloween with some spooky and sweet treats that will stop them dead in...
Parent-Teacher Conferences – Do’s & Don’ts
It’s time again to meet with parents and guardians of your students one-on-one during parent-teacher conferences. You may have had interactions with students’ families before, but this time, it’s a little more serious. Unfortunately, you may only have 15 minutes to...
Generator Safety Tips and Hacks if Power Goes Out
California utility companies are taking drastic steps to prevent wildfires by cutting power to up to one million households. Downed power lines or sparks during high winds and red flag fire warnings have been blamed for starting previous fires. The outages...
How to Prepare Your Classroom for an Emergency
Our Education Blogger is a public school teacher with over a decade of experience. She’s an active NEA member and enjoys writing about her experiences in the classroom. Emergency situations can happen any place and at any time, that is why it is important to...
Night Shift Nurse – 5 Ways to Get the Best Sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgRZwLCY9zM&list=PLw-08vCeLDBeyruN4w99bcdaz5848_69s&index=3 As a night shift nurse, your schedule is anything but normal (not that a nurse's schedule is normal). While the rest of us are sound asleep in our beds, you - the night...
Fall Foliage- Scenic Road Trips
It's National Fall Foilage week!Fall is officially here and no matter what part of the country you're in, you can enjoy the scenery as the leaves start to change color. North, South, East or West; We've compiled a list of National Parks and cities all...
The Coziest Fall Recipes
It's fall y'all! And that means it's time to break out the crock-pot because it is the absolute BEST season to be in the kitchen whipping up cozy fall recipes. Apples and pumpkins and stews, oh my! All of our favorite cozy fall crock-pot and dessert recipes can be...