Scientific American Mind
Dear Friends- In the top right corner of page 33 in the March/April issue of Scientific American Mind is a bright yellow box titled “What...
Incomepoop
Dear Friends- My kids and I were goofing around together the other night and I fell into a role I love to play with them, that of...
Pickett's Charge
Dear Friends - This Wednesday, my calendar read “Pickett’s Charge- 1:00 pm.” Not my usual appointment for that time, to be sure. As I...
Cooking and Reading
Dear Friends- I walked into our school kitchen the other day to find Anita and her student Lauren chopping vegetables. We do a lot of...
Writing to Read
Dear Friends- When our Downstairs students are finished with lunch, we ask them to wait for their friends who are still eating by...
Lunch With the Pre-K
Dear Friends- I walked out to the Downstairs playground this afternoon, and there were all of our pre-K students eating lunch with Anne...
Becoming a Reader
Dear Friends- One snowy day in Elementary School I was in trouble for something (Talking in class? Getting out of my seat? Not paying...
Active, Play-Based Learning
Dear Friends- I feel heartened by the increasingly mainstream public discussion of the benefits of approaches to education that are not...
I Feel Free
Dear Friends - Sometimes these Friday Notes just write themselves. I have just returned from yet another wildly successful day of skiing...