Posted by Chip on August 23, 2011
Over the next three weeks around the country, students begin another school year. For many families the first day of school feels more like the beginning of a new year than does January 1st. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, [...]
Categories: Seasons of the School Year, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: back to school, first day of school, school life, school year, start of the school year | 
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Posted by Chip on August 25, 2010
Just to get everybody in a school frame of mind—a short quiz. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below the entry —If you’re reading this entry from your email, click “Yardsticks” to [...]
Categories: Parent Questions & Concerns, Schoolwide Issues |
Tags: back to school, first day of school, getting ready for school, helping children start the school year, start of the school year | 2 Comments »
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? JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below the entry [...]
Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Schoolwide Issues |
Tags: birthday cluster, first day of school, knowing the children we teach | 7 Comments »
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 teaching and [...]
Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Education Reform, Schoolwide Issues |
Tags: building relationships with children, data-driven decision making, first day of school, knowing the children we teach | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 2, 2008
Anyone—parent or teacher—starting the new school year with tweeners or teenagers should think about immediately ordering a copy of The Advisory Book by Linda Crawford! JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below [...]
Categories: Books, Teachers & Teaching, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: back to school, developmental teaching, first day of school, linda Crawford, Origins, The Advisory Book | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 21, 2008
As you ready your child for the first day of school this year, your thoughts naturally turn to all the things you hope for and worry about with regard to this particular precious and wondrous mystery you wake up most mornings and tuck into bed many a night. Maybe you make a list, at least [...]
Categories: Schoolwide Issues, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: back to school, first day of school, Schoolwide Issues, start of the school year, the Responsive Classroom approach | 3 Comments »
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