Wednesday, March 08, 2023

That's What It's All About

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It recently occurred to me that I've done the Hokey Pokey on four continents. Impressive, no? This may not make me the w...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

The Virtues

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There was a tree on the playground with an angled trunk. Every now and then, the kids would challenge themselves by climbing...
Monday, March 06, 2023

The Law Of Our Jungle

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One of the great "lies" in all of literature is William Golding's novel  Lord of the Flies . For those unfamil...
Friday, March 03, 2023

The Courage Of A Child And Her Mother

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"You're going to be okay," her mother cooed, but the girl wasn't so sure. She clung to mommy's knees, ...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

What Professional Educators Know

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Currently, a higher education bill is being considered in the state of Florida that would prescribe that "Natural scie...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

"The Teacher Is Not A Machine"

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The teacher . . . is not a machine which follows a certain syllabus, which has certain lessons to recite to the child, and t...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Because That's Where Community Begins

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A while back, I was passing a table at which four boys were eating snack. They were discussing a classmate, a boy with senso...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Play-Based Preschool Is Better With Parents Playing With You

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Based on my informal and unscientific surveys of early childhood educators, one of the biggest hurdles to fully realizing pl...
Friday, February 24, 2023

"The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree To Which You Are Free"

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Everybody's had to fight to be free.  ~Tom Petty The American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet Utah Ph...