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We partner with the A Year at Mission Hill project because we believe in its premise: Through looking carefully at quality in varied educational contexts,…
We partner with the A Year at Mission Hill project because we believe in its premise: Through looking carefully at quality in varied educational contexts,…
Sometimes “Highlights” and “Ask Me About” just can’t capture the week. We need pictures! Historically Accurate Play in Opal 4 has moved – geographically and…
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…
As we discussed on Literacy Night at Opal School last week, the writing component of Literacy Studio in the upper grades at Opal School is…
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,…
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 final goal and expecation that we have for Opal School students is this: Develop strategies that contribute to the quality of the community by…
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…