The other day my kids were playing in the mud with their cousins. We were replanting some lilac shoots from a very special family bush. While I was thinking about the significance of this 1oo+ year-old family heirloom, the kids were busy stomping in the mud and muck. I didn’t get upset with them – [...]
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Backing up a bit, here are a few thoughts about why I titled my blog “Empowered by Play”. If you read my piece Six, Going on Sixteen in Rethinking Schools, then you probably have a good idea. A few years ago, while teaching 5, 6 and 7-year-olds, I was caught off-guard by the needs of [...] In the early years of No Child Left Behind I worked with Deborah Meier http://www.deborahmeier.com/ at the Mission Hill School in Roxbury, MA. Debbie was the founder and principal. I was a teacher – but a student as well. Deb is good at starting schools that are interesting places for students and for teachers. [...] When I was a little girl our family used to gather in the playroom on Friday nights for our much-loved BINGO night. I remember taking turns being the caller and learning the BINGO lingo (did you know that “in waiting” means you are just one space away from BINGO?) and lots of laughing. It [...] |
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