Clik here to view.
My mother’s puzzlement
teachingontheverge:I’ve found this blog a few days too late but I’m going to enjoy reading through the archives. This one in particular spoke to me; I often chuckle at the ways that my dance and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Architectural Voices – Part 2
This is the second post in a series of children’s poetic reflections on their architecture projects. You can read more about their projects in earlier posts on this blog tagged with “architecture” as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of Leaders and Lunch Money
A new blog post on the BAM Radio Network – I hope you enjoy! http://www.bamradionetwork.com/edwords-blog/leaders-and-lunch-money
View ArticleClik here to view.
Architectural Voices – Part 3
This is the third and final installment of children’s poetic reflections on their architecture projects. To read about the project in its entirety, please use the search term “architecture” in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Observation Frustration
The child has a hundred languages (and a hundred hundred hundred more) but they steal ninety-nine. The school and the culture (Loris Malaguzzi) Children can draw from observation. They have an eye for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 Lessons from Camp
We picked our little boy up from camp the other day. He’s been to sleep-away camp twice this summer, early in the summer for 4 nights, most recently for three nights. He’s still little so these have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oh very young one
Today while we were out and about, my son nuzzled into me, pushing my arm over his head and onto his back, demanding my closeness. He’s 7; every time he wants to be that close is a gift. I know that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A good school
Earlier this week, I wrote about our children starting at a new school. It’s a “good school”, that’s what everyone says. About their old school, they said less flattering things; it’s a rough school, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Capable Child
I believe that children are capable. If my teaching life has a base, that’s it. I’ve started so many experiences with that assumption that it’s become second nature. I’ve tried, over the past few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cultural Navigation
I had an interesting experience this summer watching the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Produced by one of our local community theatre groups, I had been following the rehearsal process with interest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accidental Assessment
I’ve had several anguished conversations with friends in the past few weeks. These are people with young children, particularly boys, who are watching their kids disengage from school, start to feel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Case for Mental Health Days
Not play-based, not emergent, not about the Arts… but a new BAM Radio Network post nonetheless. I hope you enjoy. http://www.bamradionetwork.com/edwords-blog/the-case-for-mental-health-days I’ve also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where do the Arts Belong?
Last week, I had an interesting conversation with one of my sons’ teachers. He has a classroom teacher who delivers the “core” subjects (not my favorite term, by any means), a physical education...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When worlds collide…
Sometimes my documentation practice follows me home. This has been one of those times. http://www.kveller.com/my-son-is-playing-holocaust-and-i-think-thats-good/
View ArticleClik here to view.
What’s the Medium? What’s the Message?
“Ugh… I hate art.” “He never wants to do art.” “I can’t draw.” “I’m not creative.” I’ve heard all of these words, and more, coming from teachers and students over my years in Arts Education. It’s often...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Christmas Quandary
I’m a bit of a scrooge, I’ll admit it. I do not slip easily into the holly-jollies of this time of year. I’m pretty serious by nature and it’s a difficult posture to shake. I find it hard to toss...
View ArticleClik here to view.
They aren’t interested in anything.
The last several weeks and months have been busy ones as I’ve been getting used to my new job and figuring out how to manage all the competing priorities in my life. How does she do it all? Well, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Artists in deep
We have had a wonderful project running in many of our schools over the past few years, a project that brings working artists into classrooms to work with young children and their educators in and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rights and Wrongs
Today was a day spent listening and talking, reflecting and remembering as we sat together, myself and colleagues, to talk about our Kindergarten program and about the now almost completed Ontario...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Critiquing the un-critiqueable
Twenty years ago, Arlene Croce, writing in the New Yorker, declared that she felt that Bill T. Jones’ work exploring his own AIDS diagnosis and the terminal illnesses of his performers made his work...
View Article
