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Foraging
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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Story Workshop
In the recent weeks we have begun having Story Workshop in Preschool. Story Workshop is a structure we continue to develp at Opal School that…
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Creating new memories of what is possible
It's the last day before winter break, and I spend a chunk of the morning dropping into classrooms. Exciting worlds are being created amongst children,…
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Story Workshop – beginning in Beginning School
In the recent weeks we have begun having Story Workshop in Preschool. Story Workshop is a structure we continue to develp at Opal School that…
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Negotiating Treaties, Negotiating Curriculum
The Separatists from England, via Leiden, Holland, finally took their very well known journey on the Mayflower, which, by the way, was exactly this long (see…
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Keeping the Work Whole
So often in our society we view learning in pieces. Teaching and learning are viewed separately, as though somehow isolated from each other. Curriculum is broken…
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Today’s Citizens: Children’s Role in Creating Children’s Museum Exhibits
We know that children are full of capabilities and ideas the world needs. They are today’s citizens – not tomorrow’s. How can children’s museums be…
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Teaching and Learning: A Reciprocal Exchange
One day last week, we invited the children to capture in their journals some sneak peeks from the stories in their lives they had been…
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Playing with Ideas
A “science talk” is a structure we use at Opal School to invite the children to play with ideas. It is intended to provoke thinking…
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