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Tim Lauer

Formetly the principal of Lewis Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. Now serving the students and staff of Evergreen Schools as Director of Digital Learning.
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Jetlag catching up with the little traveler...
Sunday afternoon at @omsi - #twitter
A gift from her Spain...#twitter
A new spin on the #pdxcarpet thing...
A beautiful morning in #pdx
#pizzanight
#pizzanight during #pizzaweek from @babydollpizza - #twitter
@breakoutedu in the York Elementary Library... #eps #twitter
Wednesday evening in #pdx - #twitter
Student portraits on display in the Mt. View High School Library... #twitter

  • Tim Lauer
    I thought I pulled up behind @gruber last night... 😎 https://t.co/cMoGGBnsNv
    about an hour ago
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    RT @diana_elizalde8: Only 10 girls walked out of a school of 700. We were threatened with exclusion from our graduation ceremony. We w… https://t.co/L36ceUfwg9
    about 21 hours ago
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    #pizzanight during #pizzaweek from @babydollpizza - #twitter https://t.co/GYypPZr6Ox
    about 2 days ago
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    Wednesday evening in #pdx - #twitter https://t.co/Gr9LU6Sxuz
    about 4 days ago
  • Tim Lauer
    RT @markmobility: Puerto Rico has more citizens than 21 states. If any of those states was suffering a 36-hour blackout, it would be… https://t.co/qWG6b51Y8r
    about 4 days ago
  • Tim Lauer
    RT @debrahernanz: Six different boys put their #ozobot tracks together I wonder what it is with #coding that makes you want to connec… https://t.co/7cWitiv41R
    about 4 days ago
  • Tim Lauer
    Student portraits on display in the Mt. View High School Library... #twitter https://t.co/MrRxv3jkFX
    about 4 days ago
  • Tim Lauer
    RT @davidgura: Carl Kasell has died: https://t.co/2cFVIT8xwl. In addition to being a longtime @NPR newscaster and @waitwait's scor… https://t.co/QXBZutubMY
    about 5 days ago
  • Tim Lauer
    Had a great visit with @BSD_Tech_Pep this morning and got a tour of their great workspace... https://t.co/KfZJO8EBUa
    about 5 days ago
  • Tim Lauer
    RT @michaelbhorn: Over a million students drop out of college each year. This amounts to large costs to students, #highered instituti… https://t.co/ZAMfvhH0VM
    about 6 days ago
Lunch recess January 14, 2014 at 1201PM.jpg

Rainy Day Recess

January 09, 2014 in Lewis Elementary

One of the decisions that I have to make is calling a rainy day recess. Basically if it is raining significantly during our lunch time recess, we do not send the students out for recess, but rather call a rainy day recess. A rainy day recess consists of various indoor activities for students during lunch. This involves the movement of students to various locations such as our library, our gym, our technology lab, the music room, and classrooms. Basically rainy day recesses are harder to organize and involve the moving of students from the cafeteria to their particular rainy day recess location. It is a lot of work.

For the past few years I have been using an iOS app called Dark Sky to help me with my decision making process regarding whether to call a rainy day recess or not. Dark Sky is an app that provides a macro forecast for a particular location and provides a visual representation of the probability of rain or snow for the upcoming hour. It calls upon local weather stations to predict precipitation for your particular location. From my experience it works very well. I use it daily in the winter months to help make the rainy day recess call.

A companion web site that provides similar information is called Forecast.io. I highly recommend both.

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