Teacher Tom

Teaching and learning from preschoolers

Friday, May 01, 2026

It Needs to Be Enough

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I used to keep a collection of styrofoam around the place, but over the years I've disposed of it and not just because i...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

All Learning Starts With a Sensory Experience

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A single flax seed is a tiny golden fleck, so small that a single one is hardly noticeable to the human eye, so insubstantia...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Radical Acts of Hope

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In the past month, I've had the honor of keynoting two large early childhood gatherings -- the CAAEYC state "Cultiv...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The Lefty Who Threw Me Curveball

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Throughout my youth and into adulthood I played and coached baseball.  Like about 90 percent of the other players, I am righ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Learning to Make Decisions

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His mother asked him, "Don't you want to go to school?" He nodded that he did, still smiling. Indeed, he appea...
Friday, April 24, 2026

No One Has Ever Pulled Themselves Up By Their Own Bootstraps

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Some 30 years ago my wife and I considered ourselves the kind of people who would have a wine cellar. We were motivated in n...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Brute Fact

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On a regular cycle, the moon in various phases is visible in the morning. Each day, when I observe it upon waking, it is in ...
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About Teacher Tom

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Teacher Tom
Seattle, Washington, United States
I am a preschool teacher, blogger, speaker, artist and the author of Teacher Tom's First Book. After nearly 20 years as the preschool teacher at the Woodland Park Cooperative School teaching children from 2-5, I'm now working with businesses and other institutions to help make high-quality, play-based preschool education a possibility for children everywhere.
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