Building Community There is something really magical about the beginning of a new school year. When I return each year to an open room, it feels like this blank canvas of possibilities. New children, new families, so much potential. And while...
Imagine being a child, stepping foot inside your classroom for the very first time. What are you thinking? Feeling? Seeing? I believe that children should feel welcomed and see themselves and their loved ones reflected in the classroom from the very...
This episode of Corridor Conversations is split between two sessions. In the first, host Gary R. Gray Jr. talks with three fifth-grade students, Sadie Beaulieu, Fallon Demers, and Liliana Tripp, about how connections were made and community was...
1. As the school year begins, I often invite teachers to consider how they will welcome children to mathematics. 1. What will their first experiences with mathematics be in your classroom? How do children see themselves connected to and...
Years into my teaching career, there was a pivotal shift in how I designed my classroom environment—one shaped by two key practices: soft starts and kidwatching. Neither of them is new or novel, but both of them are a call to recenter what I value...