Parent and Teacher Alert and Advance Warning System

Posted by Chip on October 20, 2009

So, after a late night out Saturday, October 31st, full of sugar and caffeine, we will dutifully try to get our children to bed Sunday night, November 1, an hour earlier as we return to the morning darkness of Daylight Savings Time and head back to school Monday, November 2. Whoever arranged these dates doesn’t [...]

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Challenging Our Assumptions About Children’s Growth and Development

Posted by Chip on September 28, 2009

Another provocative, idea-challenging, and idea-changing book I’ve just pored over is NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children. Written by two award-winning journalists, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, this exciting book is a collection of individual explorations of research and programs in child development and learning that turn conventional thinking, including some of my own, upside down and [...]

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