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Posted by Chip on May 18, 2011
A few days ago I was with a friend at her mother’s apartment when she drew her mom’s attention out the window to a hummingbird that had alighted on the tray of one of those specially-designed, globe-shaped feeders filled with sugar water.
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Categories: Schoolwide Issues, Teachers & Teaching, Time to Learn |
Tags: end of the school year, observing students, school leadership, Time to Learn, transitions | 
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Posted by Chip on October 18, 2010
Long-awaited research providing updated norms for the Gesell Developmental Assessment for young children is providing compelling evidence that children’s basic developmental growth patterns and rates are not changing, according to news released last Friday in The Harvard Education Letter.
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Categories: Education Reform, Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, BAM Radio, City College of New York, Columbia University, Education Reform, Edward Zeigler, Gesell, Harvard Education Letter, Headstart, importance of play, Joan Almond, KaBoom!, Moving and Learning, Rae Pica, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Teachers College, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn, William Crain, Yale | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 9, 2010
Summer draws to a close and school begins. The familiar pattern of the educational calendar begins to unfold for yet another year. Fall, winter, spring—ten months of learning still structured in most of our communities to fit the agrarian needs of past generations for harvesting and planting crops, with a long summer break for work [...]
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Posted by Chip on June 30, 2010
My granddaughter, Lily, loves to swim. Watching her in the water in the summertime is one of the most joyful experiences of this grandfather’s days. In her element, she challenges herself at the leading edge of learning and adventure.
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Categories: Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: developmental teaching, importance of play, kindergarten, observing children, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn | 10 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 16, 2009
Our granddaughter, Lily, missed the kindergarten entrance cut-off date by ten days and has returned to her small and wonderful preschool where she has stepped up from the Morning Glories to the Fireflies, a fitting transition for her, a bright light of imagination, blinking on and off as she dances from one adventure to another.
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Categories: Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: children's strengths, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on May 19, 2009
I received an email from a reader recently inquiring about the application of Responsive Classroom® practices to summer camp. The reader had found reference in my writing to the fact that some of the foundational ideas for the Responsive Classroom approach were drawn from camping practices and wondered about how Responsive Classroom practices might now [...]
Categories: Importance of Play, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: building adult community, summer camp, Thinking Developmentally | 3 Comments »
Posted by Chip on April 3, 2009
Good things come in small packages.
A small, new, groundbreaking book called simply Crisis in the Kindergarten—Why Children Need to Play in School is currently available in bookstores and on the web from Alliance for Childhood in College Park, Maryland. Every teacher, parent, and educational policy maker should read this book.
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Categories: Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: Arne Duncan, education refrom, Time to Learn | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on January 8, 2009
As I promised in my last post, I want to identify for teachers what I consider the most significant time-related strategy to use with children in the classroom in these days of the “hurried curriculum.”
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Categories: Teachers & Teaching, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: Thinking Developmentally, time for reflection, Time to Learn | 4 Comments »
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