You can say anything with a book. And children love them. They are essential tools for teaching and learning that color the process of delivering content to young minds. Appropriate, […]
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Culturally Responsive Practice
Celebrating All Of Us– Ways We Promote Cultural Inclusion And Responsiveness In My Classroom
It’s no secret that cultural responsiveness is a sought-after practice. At Bank Street, it is part of the educative canon. However, it is also not a secret that practicing it […]
Early Childhood Education
Science And Early Childhood – Why Young Children Are The Best Scientists
Scientists are astrophysicists. They are chemists, and archaeologists – biologists and anthropologists. They also happen to be three- and four-year-old children in my classroom. Last Fall, I took Science for […]
Early Childhood Education
Quantifying Intelligence And Success In Early Childhood
As the year begins, we often set new goals for ourselves and experience a renewal in our outlooks and dispositions. At this halfway point in the school year, I also […]
Activities For The Classroom
Reflecting on Autumn – Learning the Season
“CI-NNA-MON!” the class yelled the syllables in a boisterous, clamoring, almost-unison that reverberated enthusiasm through the room. Yes— what they’d just smelled is cinnamon— and nutmeg, cloves, allspice and ginger, […]
Progressive Education
Progressive Education: Learning to Understand
In education, it’s always a point of both interest and tension: progressive education versus traditional and all the assumptions that come with each. Growing up having been taught via traditional […]
Culturally Responsive Practice
Colorism and the Bronx
Bank Street is big on social justice. We roar like lions at the inequities of our educational system. It is a source of pride for many of us graduate students […]
Culturally Responsive Practice
Experiences With Bank Street’s Center On Culture, Race And Equity— Summer Musings (Or Lack Thereof)
Basically, at this point in the year, I’m a zombie. I’m so tired, my eyelashes ache – which I can assure you, can be a normal symptom after every school […]
Activities For The Classroom
NAEYC’s Week Of The Young Child: From The Bottom Of The Sea Up, Up Into Our Classroom
Although this year was my fourth participating in NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child(and despite all the work that goes into the presentation) it never ceases to wow me. The students definitely express […]
Spring feels like freedom. Once spring is done with the dreary, watery days of April and the sun emerges (most days) in May – I love it. My students do […]