Teacher Tom

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. ~Albert Camus ...

At the beginning of each new school year we held mandatory parent orientation meetings where I told the assembled parents th...

"To garden," writes Ferris Jabr in his book Becoming Earth , "is to engage in a form of coevolution -- not ju...

Much, if not most, of what you experience today will be forgotten by tomorrow. It's why we write things down. We know th...

There are three broad categories of things about which we adults know more than the young children in our care: safety, sche...

I looked up to see a familiar face. For a moment, however, I couldn't place it, but then recognized my friend who I'...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "Action is character."  As has often been the case, this artists was just asserting som...

For a time, the children gathered together around the workbench where they made things with junk using glue guns. Others cho...

The opposite of play is not work, it's rote.  ~Dr. Edward Hallowell Our outdoor classroom is one big slope and within th...