Opal School Blog
Living Inside Our Hearts
During the holiday season, it’s not infrequent to receive a note from someone you haven’t heard from for a while – and it’s always a…
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Reflection: “New Possibilities for Readers”
Vicki Vinton reads with Opal School students at the workshop. In contrast to the structure we’ve followed in previous workshops, this year (2014-15) we decided…
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Reflections from Delta School District
Two weeks ago, a group of educators from British Columbia spent two days at Opal School. Over the last few days, they’ve made their responses…
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Teaching Reading with a Strong Image of the Child
Every time I open her fabulous blog, I get excited about our upcoming workshop with Vicki Vinton. The idea that we’ll spend a significant block…
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Ripples beyond borders
During a recent conversation about all sorts of other projects, Scott Nine mentioned the success of Nuestra Escuelita preschool in Puerto Rico – and attributed…
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Not just young children’s learning
In this week’s Hechinger Report, Beverly Falk writes, “Over the last several decades, an explosion of research from across the disciplines – neuroscience, psychology, sociology,…
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Living wide awake
Tuesday night, I went to a discussion about adolescents and screen-time. The facilitator framed the issue as a battle between the desire to live a…
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Why Story Workshop?
This week, the staff of Kairos Charter School spent a day at Opal School investigating Story Workshop. They wondered how Story Workshop might support their…
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A long journey to meet the masters of so what
Last week, Opal School hosted staff from Bromley School in Christchurch, New Zealand, for two days of classroom observations, presentations, and conversation. Bromley is a…
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