Posted by Chip on May 5, 2010
As reported by the Boston Globe, on May 4, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick signed into law one of the most comprehensive antibullying measures ever passed. The family of 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, who killed himself in April 2009 after extensive bullying, attended the signing, as did a group of teenagers who advocated for a statewide [...]
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Posted by Chip on April 28, 2010
Responsibility is one of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, assertion, empathy, and self-control. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, [...]
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Posted by Chip on April 22, 2010
Assertion is one of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, [...]
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Posted by Chip on April 14, 2010
In reflecting on some of the responses to my last blog about bullying (and what we can do to be more proactive in our classrooms and schools to address this serious issue at all grade levels), I spent some time thinking more deeply about the social skills at the core of the Responsive Classroom® approach [...]
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Posted by Chip on April 28, 2009
Pretty much no matter where you live or teach or where your children go to school, this time of year, and in some cases, this particular week, marks the beginning of many annual rituals and transitions full of difficult dilemmas and wonderful paradoxes. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! [...]
Categories: Schoolwide Issues, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
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Posted by Chip on April 13, 2009
“The very attributes we most want to nurture in our children—creativity, initiative, collaboration, problem-solving, courage—are best developed through imaginative play.” The quote above—from the Alliance for Childhood’s report “Crisis in the Kindergarten” noted in my last post—is a succinct summary of one of the key expert findings explored in the nine significant research studies and [...]
Categories: Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally |
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Posted by Chip on March 20, 2009
A wonderful blog to link to from this one is Rae Pica’s “The Pica Perspective.” Just click on the blog’s name to the right, under “Blogs I Like,” and find her February 27, 2009, entry. In it, she notes the flurry of research and press about the positive influence of recess on school behavior and [...]
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Tags: children's need for play, importance of play, importance of recess, Pica Perspective, Rae Pica, Responsive Classroom approach, Thinking Developmentally | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on December 17, 2008
Teach Our Children Well: Essential Strategies for the Urban Classroom, by Helen Maniates and Betty Doerr with Margaret Goldman (Heinemann 2001) is a wonderful rediscovered treasure sent my way recently–one that’s well worth spending a few hours with over the holidays. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re [...]
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