Kathryn Ann Myers
Preparing Materials: Setting the Table
Since September, we’ve been sharing short videos exploring the power of materials in connection, expression, and understanding – with the hope of strengthening your ability…
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Setting the Table: Small World
The space Opal School children refer to as a Small World is more than space for them to find and tell stories. Small worlds offer…
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Setting the Table: Clay
“Everyone can speak the clay language: they just have to take a risk and try it.” Lois, age 11 Clay becomes a tool that students…
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Setting the Table: Graphite
School is oftentimes a place where certainty reigns – but it can be a place where people develop comfort with uncertainty. New experiences with the…
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Setting the Table: Big World
The “Setting the Table” series explores ways to engage the arts as languages for thinking and expression. This episode considers how dramatic play invites children…
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Building nests together
Opal School has a long relationship with Alise Shafer Ivey and Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles. We’ve admired and contributed to the important work that…
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We are influencing our own play. Yes!
Periodically, Opal School’s community of staff, parents, and children come together. Recently, the community tended to its outdoor space as the sun came out of hibernation. …
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Putting Himself in the Dot
K was engaged at the light table. He seemed unaware of what was happening around him. His full attention was on his creation. He had…
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Listening to children listening to trees
As we aim to create a school founded in a strong image of the child, we need to constantly consider our image of childhood and…
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