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Posted by Chip on August 13, 2010
If you are a teacher, what is better than standing in your classroom alone on an August day and envisioning the year ahead? You’ve looked at your class list and thought about your curriculum and schedule. Soon you’ll take time to look at academic records and last year’s teacher’s reports, but today is the delicious [...]
Categories: Building Relationships with Children, The School Year |
Tags: birthday cluster, first day of school, knowing the children we teach | 
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Posted by Chip on August 10, 2010
It’s nearing the beginning of another academic year when the educational accountability machine starts cranking out new sets of data — data to be sorted and scrubbed by so-called professional learning communities who will disaggregate the information to identify deficits and plan interventions to be responded to and evaluated in the continuous improvement cycle of [...]
Categories: Building Relationships with Children, Developmental Education, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform, The School Year |
Tags: building relationships with children, data-driven decision making, first day of school, knowing the children we teach | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on February 8, 2010
A short time ago, we lost one of the clearest and most courageous voices in the field of education. Rachael Kessler, author of The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School and a leader in the field of social and emotional learning, passed away at the end of January.
Rachael knew [...]
Categories: Building Community, Building Relationships with Children, Developmental Needs |
Tags: Building Community, building relationships with children, PassageWorks, Rachael Kessler, social-emotional learning, The Soul of Education | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 26, 2008
As parents and as teachers, we’re especially aware as a new school year starts of the importance of the teacher-student relationship. It’s at the forefront of our children’s minds, too: ”Who will be my new teacher?” they ask. “Will my teacher be strict? Will she like me?”
How shall we answer these questions? Or, more importantly, how [...]
Categories: Building Relationships with Children, The School Year |
Tags: challenging children intellectually, cognitive bonding, getting ready for school, knowing the children we teach, start of the school year, The School Year | 6 Comments »
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