In my first-grade classroom, social studies doesn't start with maps or faraway places. It doesn't start with a unit or a textbook. It starts with us. Social studies in early childhood is the foundational introduction to people, communities, and...
Njeri Gachathi
Njeri Gachathi is a head teacher at Bank Street School for Children in New York City with ten years of early childhood teaching experience in Vietnam and the United States. She is the creator of the Case for Play, a workshop series for early childhood educators that she has brought to schools in Kenya. Her work as a writer and speaker explores what young children teach us when we pay attention