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In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences. I shared strategies designed to develop self-regulation skills, sustain effort and persistence, and recruit interest. In this post, I want to explore the principle of representation, which is focused on providing students with access to multiple ways of experiencing or receiving information. Different learners enjoy engaging with information in different formats, and some learners have...

Getting rid of clutter around the house is one thing, but actually making the effort to organize your stuff is quite another! For one, de-cluttering is just the act of getting rid of what you don’t really need. It’s simple enough, and it doesn’t usually cost you anything. But organizing is more complicated, because it requires you to rethink the way you store your stuff. And if you’re rearranging things and moving stuff around, you might need to buy some organizing supplies (like bins, boxes, hooks, etc.) to help you get the job done. And while you can easily blow...

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I am sooo excited to share that our garage is organized and we have SO much more space. We can even park the cars in the garage now if we want to, amazing! It is truly all thanks to Elsa and her team from Composed Living. They were incredible in helping us with this transformation – I don’t think we ever could have done it without them! We started this project well before we had thoughts of moving, but I am so glad we did because now it also is so much cleaner for when people are looking at the...

Photo by Christopher Lane Princeton AN ARTFUL EXPRESSION OF GRIEF How do you express grief over lives lost to Covid-19 and police brutality? How do you create community in a time of isolation? For many Princeton-area residents, the answer arose from Japanese tradition: folding thousands of origami paper cranes. “When Covid happened, so many people were dying, and it seemed so hopeless,” says Heidi Moon Matsukawa, proprietor of Miya Table and Home, a Japanese tableware and gift store in Princeton. “We started thinking about creating cranes for every person who died in New Jersey from Covid, so people could see...