Inside The Bixby Classroom – Challenging Topics
I am so excited to share with you some glimpses into our classrooms this week. The vignettes below from our faculty are beautiful examples of the many ways we nurture,…
Creating Self-Awareness & Authenticity at Bixby
A few months ago I came across this article in the New York Times, Why Your Kid's Bad Behavior May Be a Good Thing. I’ll confess that I picked it…
Executive Functioning Skills
This month our school-wide Social-Emotional Learning focus is on Executive Functioning Skills. Executive functioning skills refer to cognitive processes that help us all to plan, pay attention, focus, regulate…
Resilience and Positive Risk-Taking at Bixby
As part of our social-emotional curriculum, each month we choose a topic to study and practice as an entire school community. This month’s topic is Resilience and Positive Risk-Taking. Little…
A Bixby Education
As part of our self-study process last year, we were challenged to articulate what we teach at Bixby and what our graduates can expect from a Bixby education. The process…
Global competence means understanding about the world…
Global competence means understanding about the world and approaches to living in it that enable learners to meaningfully engage with the world around them. As any parent can attest, to…
Serious Play
“...all work and no play is no good at…” stares up at me in an endless loop from the stem on my old Gary Fisher mountain bike. I remember this…
Open Forum – Lucky To Have Public Health
Bixby School's Head of School, Nina Lopez is featured in the Daily Camera's Open Forum: We would like to publicly thank the professionals at Boulder County Public Health for their…
Bixby School is Committed to the Health of Our School Community and Transparency About our Efforts to Keep Our Students and Faculty Safe.
October 29, 2020 This morning’s Daily Camera included an article about several recent outbreaks in Boulder County, including one at Bixby School. Because we were unable to share comments in…
How Much Play is Built into the Bixby School Schedule?
During a recent virtual tour of Bixby for a prospective family, one of the parents asked me “how much play is built into the school schedule?” I paused for a…
We Need To Talk About Race, With Each Other And With Our Children
Bixby’s mission states, “Bixby School serves preschool through elementary level children and their families in a small community setting that compassionately empowers children with critical thinking skills, self-confidence, independence and…
Showing Up With Our Best Self During Remote Learning
Each of us is doing the best we know how under some unusual and challenging circumstances. In the midst of these circumstances, I am repeatedly humbled by the genuine kindness…
Bixby School Celebrates Read Across America Day!
This past Monday, March 2, was Read Across America Day. Started in 1997 by the National Education Association, the day is part of a nation-wide effort to celebrate and share…
I Am Grateful For…
“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” ~ Breneé Brown One of my…
Progressive Schools
“Progressive schools are characterized bywhat I like to call a ‘working with’ rather thana ‘doing to’ model.” This statement from a 2008 article highlights one of the key principles of…
Bixby’s Lower Yard
Each time I give a tour to a prospective family, I try to leave Lower Yard for the end. To me, Lower and Preschool Yards reflect so much about our…
Whole Child Education
“Whole Child” education is a term often used to describe an approach to education that focuses on more than a narrowly defined set of outcomes (often limited to standardized test…
Bixby School Named Top 5 Private School
Thanks for voting Bixby School in the Top 5 Private Schools in Colorado Parent Magazine's Family Favorites 2019! Email admissions@bixbyschool.org to set up a tour or come visit us at…
How Math Explains Our World
Earlier this week I met a Bixby alumna, D, who graduated from Bixby in 1989. 30 years later, she came back to explore Bixby for her own child! It is…
Why is Unstructured Play Crucial?
Several weeks ago, Julie Layne (1-3rd grade math) shared an online article with me about the value of play, and in particular unstructured play. The article, “Why is Unstructured Play…