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Skills for Life

A few months ago, it was hard to open a newspaper or turn on the radio without running into Paul Tough and his book, How…

Literacy Studio

What is Literacy Studio? Literacy Studio is an approach to developing increasingly sophisticated reading and writing skills and attitudes through the application of the arts, lived experience,…

Inspiration

With all of our talk with Opal 2 students in this first month of school about intentions, some questions have come up about the process of being…

The We That I Am

The final goal and expecation that we have for Opal School students is this: Develop strategies that contribute to the quality of the community by…

A Study of Bugs

In second and third grade this year, the “big idea” we are studying is the concept of interdependence. This idea of each living thing having its…