Why Story Workshop?
This week, the staff of Kairos Charter School spent a day at Opal School investigating Story Workshop. They wondered how Story Workshop might support their…
Tag: values
Reconfiguring
I don’t think I’ve been so excited to begin a school year in a long time. Opal School’s continuous journey to develop an understanding of…
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…
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…
Our Trip to the Farmer’s Market
In preschool we try to offer as many experiences as possible for our whole group to come together to share and listen to each other’s…
The Power of Materials: A Group’s First Exploration into Foil
Materials, they can draw you in to look more closely. They can draw you in to touch them, interact with them, …play and dance with them!…
The Social and Emotional
Re-reading this article tonight, after a particularly creative third grade Literacy Studio today, I was thrown against the cold reality of the mindset of those…
Change
It’s August and at Opal School that means there are 3 of us here ready to begin the ball toss that will evolve into our…
Cognition
Observing, listening, asking questions, and documenting student growth and learning is all a part of what we do as teachers every day at Opal School.…
“It’s a Soup For Everyone!”
As the weather turns colder, our bellies and hearts remind us that we’ve got to work together to stay warm and loved inside and out! …