Teaching and Learning
Inciting curiosity
In his recent NY Times piece reflecting on Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys, columnist David Brooks distinguished between cultures of knowingness and knowledge. According to…
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Testing Talk
At this morning’s whole school gathering, Opal 1 told us about what they’ve been studying. Taylor explained that they were studying birds and then…
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Dr. Cosmos, meet Dr. Reggio
Over the last few days, I’ve been reading reflections written by participants who attended Opal School Visitation Days for course credit through Portland State University.…
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What are we growing?
It seems like everybody in Portland was gardening Saturday. When I went to fill up the pickup bed with mulch in the morning, the…
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Guest Post: The Art of Inquiry
This post is written by Louise Cadwell and Yvonne Liu-Constant, who co-led this year’s Lesley University study tour at Opal School. It is cross-posted on…
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The Culture of the Atelier – Connecting minds, hands, rationality and emotions
In my last blog post, I talked about the Hundred Languages, the many ways of knowing and expressing that belong to children. The schools of…
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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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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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