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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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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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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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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Posted by Chip on September 11, 2009
Heard this term? I observed a striking example of this definition of our young people in action as I sat at the back of a group of nearly 100 fifth graders watching and listening to the President’s “First day of School” address September 8th (see previous blog entry).
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Posted by Chip on September 1, 2009
By now you may have heard that President Obama will be addressing our students nationwide on September 8th at 1 p.m. EST. It should be exciting and inspiring!
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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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