Susan Harris MacKay
What is Playful Inquiry?
Remember the feeling of your own childhood play– when time disappeared. An hour went by in what felt like seconds because you were lost in…
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This week’s contents
Welcome to Opal School Online's second module! Here, we'll explore the role of play in formal learning environments and in healthy child development. Watch the…
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Cracking Open Big Words
Part of learning to live in a healthy community is learning to understand that experience leads to the development of difference and perspective. Difference is…
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Supporting the Individual and the Group
A Story for Active Reflection First: Think of one time in your own childhood that was an emotionally difficult time for you in which the…
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You Are Not Your Idea
The video linked below captures a snippet of a dialogue that took place with a small group of 7 – 9 year old children on…
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Emotional Coaching
At Opal School, we value and pay attention to not only children's academic and physical development, but their social and emotional development. Social and emotional…
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Creating a Learning Community
Relationships are the fundamental organizing system for our approach to education at Opal School. This approach is influenced heavily by the inspiration and leadership we…
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Keeping time
My desk these days is filled with calendars, lists, agendas, new files and binders. Somehow attempting to give form to the enthusiasm and the anticipation…
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Lou and Zehren: What is Caring?
Though many of you have viewed this video on YouTube before, we've not taken much time to really talk about it, or think together…
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