Matt Karlsen
Workshop Follow-Up: Reading the World
Opal School teachers and children share their work with the world through professional development workshops. The effort involved in this is significant – but it’s…
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Collaboration Castle
On Friday, April 25, Opal 4 participated in a Gift Ceremony. The gift ceremony is a tradition at Opal School. Every year, the children think…
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Nature Play
Since Opal School’s inception, children have created adventure in The Rocky Space. A grassy slope on the side of the building, The Rocky Space was…
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Inciting curiosity
In his recent NY Times piece reflecting on Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys, columnist David Brooks distinguished between cultures of knowingness and knowledge. According to…
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Testing Talk
At this morning’s whole school gathering, Opal 1 told us about what they’ve been studying. Taylor explained that they were studying birds and then…
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Dr. Cosmos, meet Dr. Reggio
Over the last few days, I’ve been reading reflections written by participants who attended Opal School Visitation Days for course credit through Portland State University.…
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What are we growing?
It seems like everybody in Portland was gardening Saturday. When I went to fill up the pickup bed with mulch in the morning, the…
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It looks like it’s in the past now
What will happen if we paint over our blue tape murals and then pull off the tape? …
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Guest Post: The Art of Inquiry
This post is written by Louise Cadwell and Yvonne Liu-Constant, who co-led this year’s Lesley University study tour at Opal School. It is cross-posted on…
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Thinking About the Role of Provocation
I am writing this blog post from an airplane at 35,000 feet, on my way to New York City for a three day visit with…
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