Joy

During the frantic holiday season let’s pause once in a while to watch the children in their moments of sheer joy beyond the moment of opening gifts or our viewing them through the lens of a digital camera. We see the word JOY everywhere during the holidays. After all, it rhymes with …__ __ __, [...]

Classroom Routines Around the Holidays

Recently, at a staff meeting at our school, we had a wonderful presentation about the effect of trauma on learning and the way the brain reacts in times of stress for children who have experienced trauma in their young lives. It had been a particularly hard day at school, and it was just the first [...]