by Pam Oken-Wright | Mar 10, 2017 | Teacher Research
For the past several months I have been collaborating with a small school in North Carolina that has a long and cherished culture that honors the individual child above all else. Thoughtful and reflective, the teachers are aware that in other schools children engage...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Jan 2, 2015 | Teacher Research
Ours is a school for girls. Down the street is our brother school, for boys. Many years ago, I had a conversation with my counterpart in Junior Kindergarten at St. Christopher’s about our observations in the block areas of our respective classrooms. She...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Feb 1, 2014 | Teacher Research
Talking to a colleague in the Upper School yesterday brought back to the top of my mind an issue that nags and pokes and bothers me always…the reality of “mean girls” in school. It is a problem not limited to girls’ schools like ours, but...
