Susan Harris MacKay
Announcing Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers
It is with great excitement that we share the cover of our forthcoming book — Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers— available for pre-order…
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Story Workshop: A confluence of meaning-making, play, and the arts
We hope you enjoy this presentation, offered as part of The Early Childhood Assembly‘s Virtual Day of Early Childhood. We’re honored to be a part…
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Considering Risks and Opportunities
I’m interested in the ways in which these strange days of learning about teaching during a global pandemic serve as a kind of sieve, shaking…
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Getting Started: West Coast Global Pandemic Edition
This pandemic experience is a massive experiment in collective vulnerability. We can be our worst selves when we’re afraid, or our very best, bravest selves.…
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Seeking Connections
While discussion and debate carries on about whether and how to open schools safely, we know that children’s museums will be unlikely to see visitors for…
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What Do We Do When We Don’t Know What To Do?
“From now on things will be described in terms of the times Before and After Corona. Right now we are in neither. This is a…
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Starting with Story Workshop
Story Workshop begins on the first day of the new school year. Here's what it looked like!
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Working on Whiteness
Have you read the book Not My Idea by Anastasia Higgenbotham? Several weeks ago, Anastasia dropped by Opal School to speak with the 4th and 5th graders in our Willow classroom. She joined us there to talk to us about whiteness. The children were ready for her.
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Children, Complicated Times, and School
What rights do children have to think together about the world? Not our version of the world — but their own? What rights do children…
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Why Are We Doing This?
This morning, as we move through the final hours of 2018, Seth Godin (we’re big fans) posted a forward looking piece that included a list…
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