Today I’ve arrived at Colby Sawyer College to attend for the next few days the Country School Association of American Annual Conference. I’m honored to be speaking on “19th Century Childhood: The Lives of Children Among the Shakers and the World’s People.” The presentation is a slightly reworked version of the same topic that I […]
Entries Tagged as 'Children'
Country School Association of America
June 11th, 2017 · No Comments · Children, Education, Shaker, Teaching & Learning
Tags: Children·country schools·CSAA·Hancock Shaker Village·learning·Shaker·Shakers·teaching
Children and electronics
November 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Children, Education, family, Grandparents, Musings, Play
I’d like to get a longer post together with some research supporting why it’s really important for parents to control the amount of screen time their young children are exposed to in their early learning years. In the meantime, please consider listening to or reading this excellent opinion piece from Paula Poundstone on Electronics and […]
Doing and being hope
February 27th, 2015 · No Comments · Children, Quote of the Week
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it […]
Tags: Center School·Children·cruelty·history·hope·quote·spinning
34 and a week!
April 28th, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Musings, retirement, Teaching & Learning
Well, okay, somewhere, and I know where, more than a few days went by! This, however, is what my life usually looks like! What did I do in that time that claimed my time? Let’s see: taught classes, supervised student teachers, spent the day in NYC getting there via a bus trip that the Art […]
Tags: Books·Children·college·learning·passion·retirement·teaching·Work
41and nature
April 22nd, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Musings, Reading, retirement
It really struck me today that I’m six classes away from the end of my adult teacher education teaching career. I walked the two miles to work on a beautiful spring day enjoying the college’s many marshes and ducks coming to spend their spring with us. In early childhood curriculum class we talked about one […]
Tags: Children·family·Louv·Nature·reading·teaching·woods·Work