by Pam Oken-Wright | Mar 8, 2018 | Teacher Research
I taught Kindergarten and Junior Kindergarten (4’s and 5’s) in the same school for nearly 4 decades. For 26 years, essentially the entire time I was in JK, we were Reggio inspired. I had noticed early on a remarkable difference from my pre-Reggio...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Oct 9, 2017 | Teacher Research
Conversations with children about philosophy can be particularly rich. Big questions like “What is real?” or “What makes me me?” or “What happens after people die?”, big questions without obvious answers, are like playgrounds for...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Oct 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
“The Cardinal Project” is the story of a sustained investigation by four and five year old girls. Its inception was a one-sentence recollection by one of the children, an observation that resonated with other children and that led to a passionate, shared...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Aug 19, 2016 | Teacher Research
What does it mean for a young child to find her voice? We are witness, in so many ways, to the miraculous process in which children realize that they have their own agendas, and that, though they have to work within the parameters adults set to keep them safe...
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