Children: How will they ever know who they are? The question is the last line of "The Things we Steal…
Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…
Here's an article to read by David Elkind in the NYTimes Playtime is Over It's an important topic. It's an…
Well – yes – I suppose I am, and I always have been. As I child I haunted the school…
So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…
A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a…
Looking through old PDS school photos – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…
William Woodruff died this week. He was a professor of world history best known perhaps for his autobiographical works. He discovered a love…
I've written on this topic before but this is a wonderful blog post from New Zealand by Bruce Hammonds' Leading and Learning…
I've done a deal of packing and moving and unpacking in the last couple of years. And amid all the…
There's a good article in the local paper on the inexact science of school weather closing. Our recent spell of…
A school in a giant submarine with waterproof maps of the underwater world. Private helicopters to fly children to France…
Back in 1967 – the Observer newspaper in the UK organized an opportunity for children to write on the subject:…
This picture has a dollop of peanut butter on one edge, a smear of grape jelly on the other, and…