The school is on a busy road. A chain link fence separates the playground from the traffic, and the kindergarteners play without ever thinking about it except when an errant ball flies over it and it has to be retrieved. But now there is a big hole in the fence where...
From December to May 2025, I will be leading a course based on my book Embracing Challenges in Early Childhood Education. I’d like to invite you to join us as we consider the sticking points teachers encounter when collaborating with children and their research....
The Studio for Playful Inquiry, founded and sustained by Susan Harris MacKay and Matt Karlsen of Opal School fame, is an inspired and inspiring group of educators from around the world who gather virtually on a regular basis to study issues pertinent to...
Who is the Teacher? This is a question that has been answered by the machine that is education in a way that is worrisome and limiting. So limiting that teachers have lost the flexiblity to respond generatively to major challenges to the system (think COVID times). It...
We find ourselves today in a sea of conflict, fed by intentional othering and motivated by fear. Some are so afraid they will be left out that they wrap narrow affiliations around themselves and create their identities within those narrow bonds (powell and Menendian,...
This is the third blog post in the Reclaiming Joy series. I am only in the classroom as a pedagogical companion/consultant now. But I do remember: for me, teaching often felt like play…fluid, creative, guided by flexibility of thinking and mental rules, and...
