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Last week my family visited The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. The City Museum isn’t so much a museum in the traditional sense (a...

This week I presented a workshop called “Planning Purposeful Play”, all about how to set up classroom environments and present materials ...

The beginning of the school year is coming, and I stopped by the local teacher store looking for something new. I don’t know what, just som...

All of us – children, teachers, parents – have some toys we like more than others. I’m personally not a huge fan of math manipulatives that...

Sometimes no matter what a toy manufacturer has in mind, children find their own ways to use the toys. The way children use toys is tied to...

Recently on a teacher discussion board I follow, some teachers were discussing the new trend of “take apart” or “tinkering” centers and h...

I write a lot about intentional teaching, and the importance of setting up activities in a planned and thoughtful way, but there are always...