As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play. My chief concern…
On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…
Come play the way we learn – it’s an invitation and it’s on a billboard right there on Hooker Avenue*.…
Bloxes – they’re everywhere. All over the Chapman Room and now migrating to the lobby and Kenyon. What’s a blox?…
If you've been to the webpage, read your email, looked at Facebook or been on campus you will know that…
A snow day is a gift of time for play, independent work and keeping connected in the ways that make…
So here - as promised - the Ned Hallowell five-step solution for happiness and all that ails us including schools…
Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…
Every year there are new hats on the shelf in the kindergarten. Every year there are so many opportunities for…
A must read article from the Times of London. Playing Games Makes Your Child Clever
Here's an article to read by David Elkind in the NYTimes Playtime is Over It's an important topic. It's an…
With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…
So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…
Great essay by Daniel Roth in Wired magazine about “geeks” and school. Some extracts: “The driving force in the life…
Looking through old PDS school photos – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…