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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…
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Creating Possible Worlds
We are so pleased to present our very first ebook! The first to come in our Symposium Series, this ebook documents a project facilitated by…
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When you draw an object…
by Mary Gage Davis "When you draw an object, the mind becomes deeply, intensely attentive. And its that act of attention that allows you to…
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Exploring Balance
Teacher: I had a connection and wanted to bring this word back into our conversations. It actually came up first when we were thinking…
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Interdependencies
As children journey through Opal 1 and Opal 2, they spend a lot of time considering with their teachers and their peers the ways in…
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Transaction
In recent years, much has been said about creative thinking, teamwork and research as positive resources that will support the advancement of human culture. I…
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The Social and Emotional
Re-reading this article tonight, after a particularly creative third grade Literacy Studio today, I was thrown against the cold reality of the mindset of those…
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Wide Awake in the World
There is an exciting rite of passage that takes place for students in third grade at Opal School. The children receive, and learn to use,…
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Leaning into Literacy Studio
Sparks connect together like a vine but the big pink flower is the idea that goes through the picture. The flowers grew together in my…
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