Opal School Blog
Character Study Homework
From the very beginning of the year, we have been exploring relationships to place, through maps of summer, to our favorite places in the arboretum…
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Summerland Part 1
Early in the Fall, the children began to notice how quickly signs of Summer were beginning to fade. They tried to capture summer in paint…
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Farewell and Anticipation
There are exciting things happening at the Portland Children's Museum and the Opal School this spring. The Museum will begin to break ground on their new…
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Author’s Tea
Friday morning the week before spring break, Opal 2 students rushed into the classroom as their families patiently waited outside. Today was the day that…
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Play, Passion, Purpose
Thomas Friedman’s March 30 column was built around a conversation about education with Harvard’s Tony Wagner. In it, Wagner repeats the coda he discussed in…
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Visiting Ventana School
This week, I've had the pleasure of working with the staff of the lovely Ventana School in Los Altos, CA. I've observed in classrooms, consulted…
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What happens when students are invited to think of PE games as one of the hundred languages?
On Friday, March 22, the students in Opal 4 were invited to reenact Bacon’s Rebellion. We started the morning by breaking the students up into…
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What happens when students are invited to think of PE games as one of the hundred languages?
On Friday, March 22, the students in Opal 4 were invited to reenact Bacon’s Rebellion. We started the morning by breaking the students up into…
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Gift Ceremony and Authors’ Tea
This blog post is written by Opal 4 students WK, RS and RC about the morning of Friday, March 15, 2013. Today we went to…
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Guest Post: A Week at Opal School
This guest post is written by Louise Cadwell and Ena Shelley. It is cross-posted on the Cadwell Collaborative blog. We, Ena Shelley and Louise Cadwell,…
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