Connecting educators through reflective conversation since 2010. 🌟The Kinderchat Guide to the Classroom (2021) & Elementary School School Projects (2023) 🌟
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Time to ring the bell to start a lovely NEW YEAR! 🎉 Our 14th! See what’s new on #Kinderchat right here: open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
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We honor our Black and African American communities, cultures, and history. Join us this month in celebrating Black History Month on Sesame Street. 💛💚
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If you're in education (or even in community development) this week is Global Read Aloud Day and it's also Play Day on Wednesday, February 5th 2025.
Last week for this months #Kinderchat writing prompts! open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
#Kinderchat writing and reflection prompts are up for January! Take a look! Subscribe and it will come right to your inbox once a month!
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Reminder that the #Kinderchat December writing prompts are up! Take a look and respond on your own blog or journal or as you are so moved! open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
#Kinderchat New writing prompts for December are OPEN! Take a look and respond as you are so moved! open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
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C.S. Lewis: to love is to be vulnerable
ALT To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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It was about time I got back to writing blog posts: In this, I talk about how we make more of those student ideas and questions that aren't in our anticipated direction for the lesson.
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Writing prompts continue through November. Take a look and share as you are so moved 🤍
New #Kinderchat writing prompts are up for November! Take a look and share your thoughts with a link to your reflection as you are moved! This month we focus on child development: open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
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Really pleased to share our new open access paper: “Picturebooks Increase the Frequency and Diversity of Emotion Vocabulary in Children’s Language Environments: Modeling Potential Benefits to Emotional Literacy, with Pedagogical Resources”. tinyurl.com/2shaz49u
New #Kinderchat writing prompts are up for November! Take a look and share your thoughts with a link to your reflection as you are moved! This month we focus on child development: open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
Last week of this month’s #Kinderchat writing and reflection prompts on curriculum! Take a look and share your reflection here, there, or anywhere! open.substack.com/pub/kinder… New month of prompts launch next week!
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A researcher who discovered that the benefits of academically oriented pre-K classrooms quickly fade and even turn negative explains in simple language how that happens. Why a "scripted, academically focused curriculum" for young children makes no sense: is.gd/Q0mhvj
Reminder of the #Kinderchat writing prompts for this month as we focus on curriculum! Reflect, write and post as you are so moved! open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
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"An outcome confirmed in hundreds of studies: students gain a much deeper understanding of science when they actively grapple with...questions than when they passively listen to answers": ow.ly/RawXv
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The parents I really admire are those willing to keep asking themselves this question: "Is it possible that what I just did with my kids had more to do with my needs, my fears, and my own upbringing than with what’s really in their best interest?"
Hello!! October #Kinderchat Writing Prompts are UP! Take a look and share your thoughts as you feel moved! open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
Last week for this month’s #Kinderchat writing prompts! Take a look and respond as you like! open.substack.com/pub/kinder… New set of writing response prompts come out next week!