[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Morning Group Time is an important part of the day at Bixby. Meeting together as individual grades gives students a…
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Children work hard in school everyday. Teachers care deeply about academics, but they are also concerned with making sure that…
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] The start of a new school year is an exciting time for all of us. As our children are navigating…
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] No matter how many times I’ve done this (and the years are certainly adding up), I experience equal measures of…
We are off to a great start in our 46th year of continuous service to our Boulder community. I am delighted the board of trustees asked me to stay on…
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Every time I’ve stepped back into the world of being a student in one form and another over the last few decades, my empathy for…
Now, set aside school, work and stress; it's time to focus on 99 ways to play with kids this summer! Build a toy car racetrack out of old boxes, paper…
One of the things I love about working with preschoolers is that I get to teach in a multi-age classroom with children from two and a half to five years…
Here at Bixby, we love to finish the year with a flourish - Field Day!! Formerly known as the All School Picnic, Field Day has morphed into an exciting non-competitive…
As members of the Bixby community, we’re all aware of the value of the education our children receive during the academic year. In addition to this, summer camp at Bixby…
The Fifth Grade Play is an exhilarating Bixby tradition that’s existed as long as I can remember – literally. I remember watching the fifth graders perform it every May as…
In many schools “a hundred” is a reference to the 100th day of school project. This often translates into a less engaging project around displaying one hundred things in some…
The other day some of the parents and staff were trying to come up with the defining features of Bixby students. We thought by answering the central question of “who…
Danielle Feinberg, (Bixby Class of 1986), who is in charge of lighting design at Pixar gives a wonderful TED talk that was aired on PBS as part of an hour…
If your house is anything like mine, you may not always like the way your kids speak to each other or to you. But like me, you may also notice,…
In his classic work Emile, Rousseau wrote: “Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking and feeling and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs”.…
One of the many great things about a Bixby education is the opportunity our students have to experience different ways of learning. Starting with kindergarteners going on their weekly trips…
Over the last three weeks I have had the opportunity to work alongside our third grade students and their art teacher Robert, their geography teacher Mark and Lynette, another third…
Strange question for a school discussion, isn’t it? That’s what I thought during my second day of Responsive Classroom training last summer, but that’s what our instructor put up on…
“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.” –Neil Gaiman…
