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Dear Readers, Since August 2023, I have been writing for FireWatch Magazine as the Family/Education/Volunteer-related writer. I hope to add to my own blog soon, but please hop over to FireWatch Magazine and check out my work. Here is a sample.

Making ‘Never Forget’ Real: A School-based 9/11 Memorial Project Grows

Kristy Verdi

Aug 16, 20237 min read

Making ‘Never Forget’ Real: A School-based 9/11 Memorial Project Grows

If I asked you where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001, would you remember? Would you picture your surroundings, remember...

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Honor Memorial Day: Children Need To Know; Freedom Isn’t Free.

Kristy Verdi

May 15, 20234 min read

Honor Memorial Day: Children Need To Know; Freedom Isn’t Free.

By Dr. Kristy Verdi, Founder and Executive Director, Learn and Serve Tampa, Inc. (15 May 2023, Tampa, FL.) Everytime I am near Ms. T, I...

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Kristy Verdi

Oct 25, 20224 min read

An Elevator Pitch

Articulating Service-Learning on the Ride Up (or Down) Service-Learning is a word commonly used around my home. My husband can explain it...

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Kristy Verdi

Dec 22, 20212 min read

My Happy Days of Teaching

Oh, to be back in a classroom with no looming week of testing, observations, or multiple meetings. To have the flexibility to take a set...

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Kristy Verdi

Feb 23, 20213 min read

Sparks

Inspiration Spark plugs. Nick taught me about spark plugs. That was over twenty years ago, but I still remember how an internal...

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Kristy Verdi

Aug 22, 20201 min read

A Million Dreams

And so it begins. I have had a million dreams about being a helper. Sometimes it's heroic stuff, like saving a kitten from a burning...

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Kristy Verdi

Aug 22, 20201 min read

Remember Through Service

This year, on September 11, 2020, help out youth honor and remember the victims of the terrorist attacks nineteen years ago by leading a...

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