Teacher Tom

I've sent hundreds of kids off into the world from the Woodland Park Cooperative School. For most of them, I was their f...

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

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

On the one hand, we have hundreds of  children being currently imprisoned in concentration camps by our federal government ...

"Octograbbers" was a Woodland Park fad for a time. To become an Octograbber, you had to have two of our playground...

On the first day of school he told me, "There's going to be a lot of fighting this year." It was an interestin...

Yesterday, my wife Jennifer and I went to a local happy hour and enjoyed two hours re-living old stories. We've been tog...

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Economic Forum, and Unicef  (and according...

In 2007 the American Academy of Pediatrics published its clinical report on the importance of play in the healthy developmen...