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Finding new harmonies
Life in a learning community is helped along by interests, ideas, and support of others. Social life is not snuffed out; it is nurtured and…
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New Year’s Day
While New Year’s Eve marks the calendar year, for children, parents, and educators the year turns now. In Portland last night, the change was all…
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C’mon Language!
Anna Craycroft is a New York-based artist who is in residency in Portland over the coming months for a Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)…
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Symposium!
As with any other school, the end of the year brings a whirlwind of excitement. Today, the Early K took their wings to the Arboreteum,…
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Sitting next to young learners
We partner with the A Year at Mission Hill project because we believe in its premise: Through looking carefully at quality in varied educational contexts,…
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Any questions?
This week, the Museum Center for Learning had the pleasure of hosting a gathering of Los Angeles' Westside Collaborative. Seventy early childhood educators and center…
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What does social-emotional learning look like in fifth grade?
Social-emotional learning plays a central role in our work at Opal School – even in fifth grade. We understand that when people find themselves in…
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Play, Passion, Purpose
Thomas Friedman’s March 30 column was built around a conversation about education with Harvard’s Tony Wagner. In it, Wagner repeats the coda he discussed in…
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What happens when students are invited to think of PE games as one of the hundred languages?
On Friday, March 22, the students in Opal 4 were invited to reenact Bacon’s Rebellion. We started the morning by breaking the students up into…
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Guest Post: A Week at Opal School
This guest post is written by Louise Cadwell and Ena Shelley. It is cross-posted on the Cadwell Collaborative blog. We, Ena Shelley and Louise Cadwell,…
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