Susan Harris MacKay
The Power of Intelligent Materials
by Kimie Fukuda, Opal School Teacher Researcher This story is from Kylee, who was quiet, shy, and new to Opal. Until the point where this…
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Intelligent Materials
A note from Kimie Fukuda, Opal School Teacher Researcher: Encountering this idea of “children’s languages” for the first time many years ago at the Hundred…
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What Do Materials Do?
Opal 1 students went to the Portland Art Museum to investigate the kinds of materials that artists use in their work. When they returned to…
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Materials and Playful Literacy
by Susan Harris MacKay Michael has chosen to tell his story with watercolor paints today. It is a story of a castle and knights with…
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Materials and Research
This post, by Susan Harris MacKay, continues from Children as Researchers of Their Own Learning, an entry featured in last week's "Documentation" module. Children are equipped with…
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A Dialogue with Hoyt Arboretum
by Caroline Wolfe, Lead Museum School Teacher "But too often and too quickly the leaves become leaf corpses far removed from the 'pulse of life'…
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Simple Materials, Complex Ideas
By Caroline Wolfe and Lauren Adams, Preschool teachers As educators, we believe that young children have the right to use a variety of materials that…
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Chapter Five: The Arts as Languages
Welcome to the concluding unit of Opal School Online! In this module, we focus on the arts as expressive languages. At Opal School, the use…
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A Framework for Inquiry Based Project Work
This framework is one we use at Opal School to support the development of projects. We offer it to you to use in your settings…
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Classroom Schedules (and a note about math)
For those who are interested, you can see here how teachers choose to organize their time over the course of a week: Download OpalPreschoolSchedule Download…
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