The Importance of Documentation and Reflection in Building Community
In the Cottonwood community, one of our main focuses in the beginning of the school year is community building – which is foundational to all…
In the Cottonwood community, one of our main focuses in the beginning of the school year is community building – which is foundational to all…
With generous funding from The Lemelson Foundation, Opal School is embarking on an exciting journey this fall to research Invention Education alongside our friends and…
Opal School’s Summer Symposium begins Wednesday. It’s a frenetic time around the building: having said goodbye to students last week, teachers are setting up their…
My recent post, Say What You Mean, began as this post — but I got so tangled up in thinking about the relationship between knowledge…
In the start of the school year, it is my practice to offer experiences that might build relationships between children and materials in order to build…
As my colleagues and I continued to think together about our big idea of transformation and some of our research questions, we wondered what materials…
Who are these children? How can we bring their voices to the world? At our staff gathering to begin the school year, we read and discussed…
Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. -Ludwig Wittgenstein As Opal School staff reconvened last…
Opal School has two intermediate classrooms, Opal 3 & 4, which include third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders. In many ways, the teachers from the two classrooms function as a…
Opal School has two primary classrooms, Maple and Magnolia, which include kindergartners, first graders, and second graders. The teachers from the two classrooms function as a…