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On Homework
Homework is one of those words we teachers at Opal School continue to create shared meaning around. We love this post http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2011/10/home-work.html that explains how…
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Challenging Work
As teachers we hope that coming to school feels fun, safe, inviting, and intriguing for all of the students in our classroom. During the first…
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New Beginnings in Creating a Learning Community
Early last week, the children entered the classroom to find the sensory table filled with warm, soapy, green colored water. The water had become a “friendship…
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Camp Collins 2013
What happens when a group of 9, 10 and 11 years olds who have been together as a learning community for over a year spend…
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Learning Communities – For children & adults
One way to describe our work at Opal School is “a pedagogy of listening and relationships.” In her most recent post, Opal 1 teacher Marcy…
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Creating the Conditions
Not just was the school good – I also felt safe, and, you know, this feeling of safety had been lacking for the previous few…
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Story Workshop: Supporting Children with Disabilities
What is the connection between literacy and the arts? How might this connection deepen children’s creativity, cognition, and communication? Investigating these questions, teachers at Opal…
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Beginning the Year Together
This will be an atypical blog post, but I wanted to capture and share some of the moments that have been happening in Opal 3.…
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Finding new harmonies
Life in a learning community is helped along by interests, ideas, and support of others. Social life is not snuffed out; it is nurtured and…
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The First Day of School
The first day of school is always filled with so many emotions: excited, nervous, scared, relieved. You name it and on the first day of…
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